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Title: Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. Forming the second series of Sacred and legendary art
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860
Subjects: Saints Monasticism and religious orders Christian art and symbolism
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green, and Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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m, apparently, when, bythe arts of his mother, he was entrapped to pay her a visit, andslain by the hand of his brother at the foot of the altar and inthe act of prayer. Wenceslaus lived at the time when the passion for relics hadspread over all Christendom. On a visit which he paid to hisfriend Otho I., that warlike emperor bestowed on him certainrelics of St. Vitus and St. Sigismond. Thus in the Bohemianpictures we have St. Wenceslaus and St. Sigismond, all gloriousin their princely robes, their crowns and palms, and shining-armour ; St. Ludmilla, with her palm and her veil; St. Vitus,as a beautiful boy with a cock on his book; St. George; andSt. Procopius, a holy Bohemian prince who turned hermit inthe eleventh century, and is represented with a doe at his sideand a crown at his feet. St. Wenceslaus is represented robed and armed as Duke ofBohemia, carrying the shield and standard with the black A A A.)). 938.Sept. 28. Sacred andLegend. Art,2ml edit. LEGENDS OF THE MONASTIC ORDERS.
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t. Procopins. Imperial eagle (a privilege granted to him by Otho I.), and hispalm as martyr. In the Imperial Gallery at Vienna is a very curious altar-piece, with the Virgin and Child enthroned in the centralcompartment: on one side St. Wenceslaus; on the other St.Palmatius, inscribed Quis opus hoc finxit ? Thomas de Mutina pinxit. Anpioioca- Another picture in which St. Wenceslaus, a colossal figure, isstanding with the same attributes, while an angel brings himthe crown of martyrdom. In the background is a pedestal,on which is depicted a bas-relief, exhibiting the murder of the ST. HENRY OF BAVARIA. saint by his wicked brother. The painter, Angiolo Caroselli, wasone of the numerous artists in the employment of Rudolph II. In the gallery of the Academy there is (or was) a series ofpictures representing the life and martyrdom of Wenceslaus, byCarl Skreta, who, notwithstanding his terrible name, was a verygood painter, particularly of portraits. The martyrdom of St. Ludmilla I found re

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