The Life of Christ As Represented in Art

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. which brought no glory to herself, but only a sense of unutterable gratitude and humility." In early pictures she shews signs of the pains of childbirth. This was afterwards regarded as unor- thodox. Mr. Hodgson proceeds to speak of (1) Orcagna's Nativity (N. G. 573), which is intended only to be a Scripture stray, made visible to those who could not read. With Giotto began a more marked natu- ralism. (2) The Nativity of Piero della Erancesca (N. G. 908) shews a symbolism mixed up with other ...aims, — e.g. the sense of beauty, — and to a certain extent weakened by them. (3) Sandro Botticelli, born thirty years later (1455), shews a still further change. His Nativity (N. G.
1304) is a magnificent and imaginative picture, which strikes the imagi- nation by its pageantry, and the senses by its gorgeous colouring. In 234 THE LIFE OF CHRIST IN ART.
Ages. All the early religious painters endeavoured to express in colours what the poet had painted in words : — " Stabat Mater speciosa Juxta faenum gaudiosa Dum jacebat parvulus, Cujus animam gaudentem, Laetabundam et ferventem, Pertransivit jubilus." The general treatment varied but little.


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