The floral symbolism of the great mastersHaig, Elizabeth
Religion
The floral symbolism of the great masters
Haig, Elizabeth
Flowers -- Symbolic aspects
[233] Botticini, Accademia; School of Botticelli, Accademia.
[234] Carotto, S. Eufemia, Verona.
[235] Alte Pinakothek.
[236] Rossello di Jacopo Franchi, Accademia, Florence.
[237] Luca Signorelli.
[238] Rathaus, Sterzing.
[239] Uffizi.
[240] Uffizi.
[241] Frankfort-on-Maine.
[242] S. Spirito, Florence.
[243] Yrjö Hirn, _The Sacred Shrine_.
[244] Wallraf Richartz Museum, Cologne.
[245] Uffizi.
[246] _Goldene Schmiede._
[247] Huysman, _La Cathédrale_.
[248] Collection of Lady Jekyll.
[249] Tate Gallery, London.
[250] Lower Church, Assisi.
[251] Accademia, Florence.
[252] Uffizi, Florence.
[253] _Goldene Schmiede._
[254] _Die Sinnbilder und Beiworte Mariens in der deutschen Literatur
und lateinischen Hymnenpoesie des Mittelalters._
[255] Uffizi, Florence.
[256] _Spiritual Grace._
[257] Pinacoteca, Arezzo.
[258] _Lives of the Painters_, Signorelli.
[259] Cathedral, Perugia.
[260] Accademia, Florence.
[261] Collection Pierpont Morgan, America.
[262] Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin.
[263] Cologne.
[264] Cologne.
[265] W. Menzel, _Christliche Symbolik_.
[266] Oratory of S. Bernardino, Siena.
[267] Vatican.
[268] National Gallery (now attributed to Botticini).
[269] Vatican.
[270] Vatican.
[271] Cathedral, Bagno di Romagna.
[272] Accademia, Florence.
[273] Robert Browning.
[274] Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
[275] Uffizi, Florence.
[276] Now in the Pinacoteca, Lucca.
[277] Ecclesiasticus xxiv. 17, 18, 20.
[278] _Cant. Cantic._ iv. 13.
[279] In Collection of the Duke of Devonshire.
[280] Cremona.
[281] Museum, Verona.
[282] A Sienese painter of the Franciscan Legend.
[283] Upper Church, Assisi.
[284] Capella dell’ Arena, Padua.
[285] Capella Baroncelli, Santa Croce, Florence.
[286] S. Girolamo Spello.
[287] Cathedral, Como.
[288] Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
[289] Rijks Museum, Amsterdam.
[290] _Archæologia_, vol. 45.
[291] Villa Masèr, near Treviso.
[292] S. Domenico, Siena.
[293] The name Catharine, it will be remembered, is from the Greek
_Katharos_, which has the same signification as the lily, _i.e._,
purity.
[294] Luini, S. Maurizio, Milan.
[295] S. Francesco, Assisi.
[296] Royal Gallery, Berlin.
[297] National Gallery, London.
[298] Seville Cathedral.
[299] Rome.
[300] Ghent Cathedral.
[301] Collection Gardener, Boston.
[302] Berlin.
[303] _Paradise Lost._
[304] Vatican.
[305] Brera, Milan.
[306] Uffizi.
[307] Museum, Brussels.
[308] Belle Arti, Siena.
[309] Belle Arti, Siena.
[310] _Ibid._
[311] Uffizi.
[312] _Goldene Schmiede._
[313] Uffizi.
[314] _Lives of the Painters._
[315] Joos van Cleeve, Royal Gallery, Brussels; Wolf Trant, National
Museum, Munich.
[316] Florence.
[317] Imperial Gallery, Vienna.
[318] Museum, Rouen.
[319] Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
[320] Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin.
[321] The ‘Chigi’ Madonna, Collection Gardener, Boston.
[322] W. Menzel, _Christliche Symbolik_.
[323] Museum. Colmar.
[324] German Museum, Nüremburg.
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