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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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78 M, A. WILLIAMS.Ss. St. Domiuick and St. Catherine of Siena. (Sasso Ferrato.) nicans at Kome. I give a slight sketch of the composition ofthis picture—the masterpiece of the painter, with all his usualelegance, and without his usual insipidity. 3 E ;:>» LEGENDS OP THE MONASTIC ORDERS. Venice Acad. Siena.S. Dome-uico, 7. She kneels, and our Saviour, a majestic figure standing,places on her head the crown of thorns; behind St. Catherineare Mary Magdalene, St. Eaphael with Tobit, St. Peter, St.Paul, and St. Philip the apostle. A magnificent group, paintedby F. Bissolo. 8. She receives the stigmata, fainting in a trance before thecrucifix, and sustained in the arms of two sisters of her Order.The fresco in her chapel, by Razzi, is justly celebrated, and
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St. Catherine of Siena, fainting. (Razzi.) I give a sketch merely to show the arrangement. Here St.Catherine and her companions wear the white tunic and scapu-lary, without the black mantle—an omission favourable to thegeneral effect of the colour, which is at once most delicate, rich,and harmonious: and the beauty of the faces, the expression of ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA. 8M tender anxiety and reverence in the nuns, the divine languoron the pallid features of St. Catherine, render this fresco one ofthe marvels of art. As a subject, St. Catherine fainting before the crucifix is ofvery frequent occurrence, but generally she is sustained in thearms of angels, as in the picture by Eaffaello Vanni, and inanother by Tiarini; or, while she sleeps or swoons, angels hoverround her. The Sposalizio of St. Catherine of Siena is variously repre-sented, and often in a manner which makes it difficult to distin-guish her from St. Catherine of Alexandria, except by the habitand the veil. The earliest

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