PART IV.
THE LIFE OF THE VIRGIN MARY FROM THE RESURRECTION OF THE LORD TO THE ASSUMPTION.
THE APPARITION OF CHRIST TO HIS MOTHER. Beauty and Sentiment of the
old Legend; how represented by the Artists.
THE ASCENSION OF OUR LORD. The proper Place of the Virgin Mary.
THE DESCENT OF THE HOLY GHOST; Mary being one of the principal persons.
THE APOSTLES TAKE LEAVE OF THE VIRGIN.
THE DEATH AND ASSUMPTION OF THE VIRGIN. The old Greek Legend.
The Angel announces to Mary her approaching Death.
The Death of the Virgin, an ancient and important Subject. As treated in the Greek School; in early German Art; in Italian Art. Various Examples.
The Apostles carry the Body of the Virgin to the Tomb.
The Entombment.
THE ASSUMPTION. Distinction between the Assumption of the Body and the
Assumption of the Soul of the Virgin. The Assumption as a Mystery; as
an Event.
LA MADONNA BELLA CINTOLA. The Legend of the Girdle; as painted in the
Cathedral at Prato.
Examples of the Assumption as represented by various Artists.
THE CORONATION as distinguished from the Incoronata; how treated as an historical Subject. Conclusion.