A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools / Including by Special Permission Notes Collected from the Works of John Ruskin

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This little picture, of David (carrying the head of Goliath) walking with Jonathan, was formerly in the Modici collection at Naples.

2506. VIRGIN AND CHILD.

Cima (Venetian: 1460-1518).

Formerly in the Patrizi collection at Rome.

2507. PORTRAIT OF A LADY.

Bartolommeo Veneziano (painted 1505-1530). See 287.

From the Castellani collection.

2508. VIRGIN AND CHILD WITH ANGELS.

Unknown (Florentine School: 15th century).

Two charming angels, of whom one is garlanded with roses, hold the child before the Virgin. The scene is laid within the walls of the mystical garden ("a garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse"), behind which rise "Noah's ark" trees.