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Legends of the monastic orders as represented in the fine arts : forming the second series of sacred and legendary art (1891)

Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860, Longmans, Green, and Co · London ; New York : Longmans, Green, and Co · leaf 72

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LEGENDS OF THE MONASTIC ORDERS. Romualdo ; where he has the black habit, he may be mis- taken for St. Antony. It is therefore necessary to attend particularly to some characteristic attributes which serve to distinguish him. In all pictures painted for those Benedictine churches and edifices which… … St. Benedict. (From an engraving by Wierx.) with a hood ; where he figures as patriarch of the Reformed Benedictines of Clairvaux, Citeaux, Camaldoli, or Vallombrosa, he wears the white habit. He is sometimes beardless, or with little beard ; but more frequently he has a long white beard.

Christian saints · Christian saints in art · Monasticism and religious orders in art · Christian art and symbolism

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