A Short History of Monks and Monasteries eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 315 pages of information about A Short History of Monks and Monasteries.

A Short History of Monks and Monasteries eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 315 pages of information about A Short History of Monks and Monasteries.

SAINT DOMINIC, . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

From a photograph of Bozzani’s painting, preserved in his cell at
Santa Sabina, Rome.  Here reproduced from Augusta T. Drane’s
“History of St. Dominic,” by courtesy of the author and the publishers,
Longmans, Green & Co., of London and New York.

["Although several so-called portraits (of St. Dominic) are preserved, yet none of them can be regarded as the vera effigies of the saint, though that preserved at Santa Sabina probably presents us with a kind of traditionary likeness."]—­History of St. Dominic.
[In the “History of St. Dominic,” on page 226, the author credits the portrait shown to “Bozzani.”  We are unable to find any record of a painter by that name.  Nagler, however, tells of a painter of portraits and historical subjects, Carlo Bozzoni by name, who was born in 1607 and died in 1657.  He was a son of Luciano Bozzoni, a Genoese painter and engraver.  He is said to have done good work, but no other mention is made of him.]

IGNATIUS DE LOYOLA, . . . . . . . . . . . 261

After the engraving by Greatbach, “from a scarce print by H. Wierz.”  Originally published by Richard Bentley, London, in 1842.

[W.  Greatbach was a London engraver in the first half of the nineteenth century.  He worked chiefly for the “calendars” and “annuals” of his time, and did notable work for the general book trade of the better class.]
[A search of the authorities does not reveal an engraver named “H.  Wierz.”  This is probably intended for Hieronymus Wierex (or Wierix, according to Bryant), a famous engraver, born in 1552, and who is credited by Nagler, in his “Kuenstler-Lexikon,” with having produced “a beautiful and rare plate” of “St. Ignaz von Loyola.”  The error, if such it be, is easily explained by the fact that portrait engravers seldom cut the lettering of a plate themselves, but have it engraved by others, who have a special aptitude for making shapely letters.]

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