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Title: Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860 Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860. Sacred and legendary art. Second series
Subjects: Saints Saints Christian art and symbolism Monks Legends Monasticism and religious orders
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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seenonly in their effect. When a friar is seen in the background,it is his friend and disciple Leo, who is recorded to have beenpresent. The earliest example is the fresco, by Giotto, in the upperchurch at Assisi; it is treated with great simplicity, merely asan incident. There is a similar composition in the Louvre. Vienna Gai. The finest example I have ever seen is by Agostino Caracci; a picture often copied and engraved, but no copy or engravinghas ever rendered the expression of the head, which, as I wellremember, made me start back. The mystic seraph is justdiscerned far above, and rather behind, the saint: he seemsto feel, to await its approach, with ecstatic aspiration. fl Acad. The picture by Cigoli is also a masterpiece of expression,but conceived in a different spirit. St. Francis, prostrate,seems fainting under the divine anguish. It is related that,while Cigoli was at work on this picture, a poor pilgrim, wornout with fatigue and hunger, begged an alms: the painter, struck
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