Animal symbolism in ecclesiastical architecture (1896)
Evans, E. P. (Edward Payson), 1831-1917 · New York : H. Holt · leaf 243
g-whip in the other,Alexander, who had watched the progress of thisgallant adventure from a window of the palace,now drew near and derided the absurd infatuationof his grave preceptor, who candidly confessed hisfolly, but could not refrain from the pedagogicalhabit of drawing a moral lesson from it… … delineated in Christian art, especially in cloisters,where it was designed to glorify asceticism andcelibacy. One of the finest representations of itis a bas-relief underneath a console on the fagadeof the cathedral church of Saint-Jean in Lyons,dating from the fifteenth century. Behind the…
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