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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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eneira,Artists of Sanchez Coello painted a head which afterwards served as a239. model. In its general character, this head is familiar to us in art: a square, high, powerful brow; a melancholy and deter-mined, rather than stern, countenance; short black hair, baldon the temples, very little beard, and a slight black moustache.fsT*b- o- S° majestic, says his biographer, was the aspect of Loyola,vol-L that, during the sixteenth century, few, if any, of the books of his Order appeared without the impress of that imperialcountenance. Of the figure painted by Rubens for the Jesuits at Antwerp,and now at Warwick Castle, I give a sketch here. The headin the original is wonderfully fine, and quite true to the Spanishtype: he wears the chasuble as priest, and his hand is on anopen book, on which are inscribed the first words of his Rule,—Ad majorem Dei gloriam. The square black cap hangs behindhim. The chasuble is splendid,—of a deep scarlet embroideredwith gold. ST. IGNATIUS LOYOLA. 433
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St. Ignatius Loyola. (Rubens.) In general, Ignatius is distinguished by the I H S, the mono-gram of the Order,— sometimes in a glory in the sky above,sometimes on a tablet borne by angels. The heart crownedwith thorns, the Sacre Cceur, is also an attribute ; it is the crestor device of the Order. The subjects taken from his life have not been, as far as Iknow or can learn, the most striking and picturesque incidentsof that wonderful life :—not Ignatius studying on his sick bed;— nor Ignatius performing his midnight watch in the chapel ofOur Lady, hanging up his lance before her altar, and dedicatinghimself to her service;—nor the solemn vows in the chapel at 3 K \34 LEGENDS OF THE MONASTIC ORDEKS Montmartre ;—nor the prayer at Jerusalem ;—nor even hisdeath scene. These may exist, but neither in prints nor inpictures have I met with them. The favourite subjects havebeen his miracles, his visions, or his penances. After his penances in the cavern at Manresa, he began hisvoca

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