Identifier: sacredlegendarya02byujame (find matches)
Title: Sacred and legendary art
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860 Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May), 1863-1924
Subjects: Christian art and symbolism Saints
Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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enoa, where the people, being obstinate pagans, laid hold ofthem and flung them into the sea; but the sea refused todrown them ; and, after many wanderings, they came to Milan,where Gervasius and Protasius had testified to the truth, andNazarius comforted and strengthened them. Some short timeafterwards he and his youthful disciple Celsus suffered together, 646 MARTYRS OF TUSCANY, LOMBARDY, SPAIN, FRANCE being beheaded outside the Porta Romana at Milan. Thebeautiful antique Church of San Nazaro Maggiore, at Milan,still stands a record of their names and fate. Even more remarkable is that extraordinary monument ofByzantine Art, the Church of SS. Nazaro-e-Celso at Ravenna,better known as the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia/ builtand dedicated by that empress about the year 447. Amongthe antique mosaics with which the walls are covered I soughtin vain for the tutelary saints. They are always represented together, St. ISTazarius old, andSt. Celsus as a youth, and sometimes even as a boy. They
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SS. Nazarius and Celsus (G. B. Campi) bear the palm and the sword as martyrs, but are not otherwisedistinguished ; there are efRgies of them in the Church of St.Nazaro at Milan, but probably not of very great merit, for Iconfess that I have no recollection of them, while Titiansaltar-piece in their church at Brescia cannot easily be forgotten.The central subject is the resurrection of Christ; on the left SAINTS OF BEEGAMO 647 wing is the portrait of the provost Averoldi, for whom, thepicture was painted, and who is recommended to the Divinefavor by St. Nazarius and St. Celsus. St. Nazarius is bearded;St. Celsus, as a youth, stands in front, and both are in armor.On the right wing is a beautiful figure of St. Sebastian, droop-ing and half dead. The picture is a votive offering in com-memoration of a pestilence. St. Lupo, Duke of Bergamo, his wife St. Adelaide, theirdaughter St. Grata, and St. Alexander, the Martyr, forma group of saints interesting only at Bergamo. The two lastare patr

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