Tuesday, September 15, 2009

St. Bride

John Duncan. Saint Bride, 1913. National Gallery of Scotland.I have yet to ascertain if this image represents an actual event from the life of St. Bridget or a literary work like the Tennyson poem about St. Cecilia that seemed more popular to the Pre-Raphaelites and their academic followers than the saint's true story. The Scottish National Gallery comments, "According to the legend of the

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