Animal symbolism in ecclesiastical architecture (1896)
Evans, E. P. (Edward Payson), 1831-1917 · New York : H. Holt · leaf 112
gin, who sits with upturned eyesand hands folded across her breast in a state ofecstasy, while the horn of the animal is in perilousproximity to her lap. On her right are an altar In Ecclesiastical Architecture 97 with burning candles and a flowing fountain, asymbol of the waters of eternal life.… … Hunting the Unicorn. {Old German Engraving.) Saviour and the feelings which impelled Him tobecome incarnate, and to redeem the world fromthe dominion of Satan.^ This symbolism is morefully and clearly expressed in a German paintingof the fifteenth or perhaps the beginning of the 1 Cf. Dr. Ulrich…
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