Animal symbolism in ecclesiastical architecture (1896)
Evans, E. P. (Edward Payson), 1831-1917 · New York : H. Holt · leaf 170
tail, a combination of incongruitiessurpassing in whimsicalness the famous Florentinebronze of the Etruscan chimera, or the marvellouscreations of Indian and Egyptian mythology. A In Ecclesiastical Architecture 155 mosaic of the thirteenth century in the monasteryof Vatopedi on Mt. Athos shows the… … The Gospel and the Law. {HortHs Deliciarnm.) woman with a crown on her head, and dating fromthe year 1300, adorns the south portal of thecathedral at Worms, and is exhibited in a plastercast in the Germanic Museum at Nuremberg. Ittypifies the rapid triumph of the gospel. A mini-ature in the HorUis…
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