Sacred and Legendary Art, Volume 1 — Anna Jameson
Sacred and Legendary Art, by Mrs Jameson—A Project Gutenberg eBook You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org . If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title : Sacred and legendary art, volume 1 (of 2) Author : Mrs. Jameson Release date : December 19, 2022 [eBook #69581] Most recently updated: October 19, 2024 Language : English Original publication : United Kingdom: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1870 Other information and formats : www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69581 Credits : Jane Robins, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) *** START OF Variations in hyphenation and accents have been standardised but all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged. The woodcut number 48, The Symbol of St. Matthew. Mosaic. , does not exist. The cover was prepared by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain. Sacred AND Legendary Art. VOL. I. Sacred and Legendary Art, by Mrs Jameson—A Project Gutenberg eBook THE LATEST EDITIONS OF MRS. JAMESON’S WORKS ON SACRED AND LEGENDARY CHRISTIAN ART. The Fifth Edition, in 2 vols. square crown 8vo. with 19 Etchings on Copper and 187 Woodcuts, price 31 s. 6 d. LEGENDS of the SAINTS and MARTYRS as represented in the Fine Arts, forming the First Series of ‘Sacred and Legendary Art.’ By Mrs. Jameson . II. LEGENDS of the MONASTIC ORDERS. Third Edition, with 11 Etchings and 88 Woodcuts. 1 vol. 21 s. III. LEGENDS of the MADONNA. Third Edition, with 27 Etchings and 165 Woodcuts. 1 vol. 21 s. IV. HISTORY of OUR LORD as exemplified in Works of Art. By Mrs. Jameson and Lady Eastlake . Second Edition, with 31 Etchings and 281 Woodcuts. 2 vols. 42 s. ⁂ Of these 312 Illustrations, all prepared specially for the ‘History of Our Lord,’ nearly one-third of the whole number have now been engraved for the first time. ‘We have in these volumes, penned in a truth-seeking spirit and illustrated with a copious generosity which at once elucidates and adorns each section of the subject, contributions to the literature of Christian Art , for which every artist and every student of theology will confess debt of private gratitude. To thoughtful inquirers, richest mines are here opened for meditation. To minds prepared for deeper draughts to quench the thirst for knowledge, wells are dug and fountains are made to flow even in the desert tracks of time where pilgrim’s foot seldom attempts to tread. We think that Lady Eastlake has done special service in bringing into popular view recondite stores which have hitherto been sealed for public use. She has, by appeal to the early heads of Christ in the Catacombs, by reference to Christian sarcophagi of the fourth century, to ivories as old as the sixth century, and Greek MSS. and Byzantine miniatures of the ninth century, enabled the art-student to tract the history of types and antetypes, and to analyse the rudimentary germs which, from age to age accumulating strength and growing in comeliness, at length issued forth in perfected pictorial form. It is to this, the infancy of art, that at the present moment peculiar interest attaches. ’ Blackwood’s Magazine. The Assumption of the Magdalena . Sacred AND Legendary Art. BY MRS. JAMESON. VOLUME I. CONTAINING LEGENDS OF THE ANGELS AND ARCHANGELS, THE EVANGELISTS, THE APOSTLES, THE DOCTORS OF THE CHURCH, AND ST. MARY MAGDALENE, AS REPRESENTED IN THE FINE ARTS. SIXTH EDITION. LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1870. LONDON: PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET Sacred and Legendary Art, by Mrs Jameson—A Project Gutenberg eBook PREFACE To THE THIRD EDITION . The Author ventures to hope that, on comparing this Third Edition of ‘Sacred and Legendary Art’ with the two preceding, it will be found greatly improved, and rendered more worthy of the kind approbation and sympathy with which it has been received. The whole has been carefully revised; the references to the pictures and other works of Art corrected from the latest authorities, and many new examples have been added. All the Illustrations, which were formerly etched on copper, have been newly etched on steel; two have been omitted, and three others, as more interesting and appropriate, have been substituted; and twelve new woodcuts have been introduced. In a work so multifarious in its nature, and comprising so many hundred subjects and references, there may remain some errors and omissions, but they have not occurred from want of care; and I must not omit to express due thanks for the observations and corrections which have been forwarded to me from time to time, and which have been in this Edition carefully attended to. A. J. January 1857. Sacred and Legendary Art, by Mrs Jameson—A Project Gutenberg eBook PREFACE To THE FIRST EDITION. (1848.) This book was begun six years ago, in 1842. It has since been often laid aside, and again resumed. In this long interval, many useful and delightful works have been written on the same subject, but still the particular ground I had chosen remained unoccupied; and, amid many difficulties, and the consciousness of many deficiencies, I was encouraged to proceed, partly by the pleasure I took in a task so congenial—partly by the conviction that such a work has long been wanted by those who are not contented with a mere manual of reference, or a mere catalogue of names. This book is intended not only to be consulted, but to be read—if it be found worth reading. It has been written for those who are, like myself, unlearned; yet less, certainly, with the idea of instructing, than from a wish to share with others those pleasurable associations, those ever new and ever various aspects of character and sentiment, as exhibited in Art, which have been a sour