Benozzo Gozzoli[269] gives the flower-filled tomb, but neglects the symbolism of the legend, for to the roses he adds daisies and jasmine. It is simply a collection of the flowers sacred to the Virgin. Giulio Romano,[270] in the _Madonna di Monteluce_, paints neither roses nor lilies, merely small, indeterminate blossoms, mauve, blue and yellow. On one panel,[271] of the fifteenth century, which represents ‘The Giving of the Girdle to Saint Thomas,’ cut roses and lilies lie upon the top of the closed tomb, which seems a misapprehension of the legend, but possibly the artist merely intended to paint the flowers usually used as attributes of the Virgin--the rose of love and the lily of purity--without any reference to the story as told in the Golden Legend. But though the lilies of the Virgin’s tomb represent angels and virgin saints, in those pictures of her Coronation or Assumption, where no tomb is shown, the flower is the symbol of her own purity. Through her perfect purity she has attained the crown, therefore it is with stems of white lilies that the rose-crowned angels hail her Queen. Fra Filippo Lippi[272] paints her kneeling to receive the crown from God the Father: ‘Ringed by a bowery, flowery angel-brood Lilies and vestments and white faces, sweet As puff on puff of grated orris-root.’[273] A child-angel holds a scroll with the words: ‘_Is perfecit opus_,’ and the archangel Gabriel with a lily, painted in a small lunette above the throne, recalls the first beginning of the work now perfected; while before the throne, and thick on either side, is a waving grove of large white lilies, each stalk held by an adoring angel. The devotional figure of the Virgin known as the ‘Immaculate Conception’ is usually presented as the woman with ‘the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars;’ four or five attendant child-angels each carry a symbol of her virtues, and the lily is always prominent among them. This particular aspect of the Virgin was especially popular in Spain, where Murillo was its finest exponent. The flowers of an Immaculate Conception are the rose, lily, olive and palm, signifying love, purity, peace and victory. Sometimes the iris, the royal lily, is added; sometimes it replaces the _lilium candidum_. José Antolines[274] paints the iris only. In the chapter on ‘Garlands of Roses’ we remarked the thorns which in the mystic Enclosed Gardens of Germany illustrate the verse: ‘As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.’