Animal symbolism in ecclesiastical architecture (1896)
Evans, E. P. (Edward Payson), 1831-1917 · New York : H. Holt · leaf 216
figure was ^ This door is popularly known &s porta della rana, fromthe carving of a frog snapping at an insect. The frog,according to the Physiologus, is a type of those who snatchat the fleeting pleasures of this world. In Ecclesiastical Architecture 201 simply an allegory of the city of Rome,… … Papal Ass. {Cathedral of Como.) the Spaniards had introduced into Naples fromthe New World, and the French troops had broughtwith them to Rome ; the eagles claw would repre-sent the rapacity of Charles VIII.; the oxs hoofwould refer to Alexander VI., whose coat-of-armswas an ox, and who kept his…
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