_Giovanni Bellini_ (Venetian: 1426-1516). _See 189._
A prophetic sense of the Saviour's sufferings is signified by the
symbol of the pomegranate--
Pomegranate, which, if cut deep down the middle,
Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.
MRS. BROWNING: _Lady Geraldine's Courtship_.
Years pass and change; mother and child remain.
Mother so proudly sad, so sadly wise,
With perfect face and wonderful calm eyes,
Full of a mute expectancy of pain:
Child of whose love the mother seems so fain,
Looking far off, as if in other skies
He saw the hill of crucifixion rise,
And knew the horror, and would not refrain.
_Love in Idleness_ (1883).
This picture, which is signed by the painter, probably dates from
1485-88.