Animal symbolism in ecclesiastical architecture (1896)
Evans, E. P. (Edward Payson), 1831-1917 · New York : H. Holt · leaf 259
Kempen. AtCleves are also representations of a man ridingbackwards on a pig; a man stroking a cat; twomendicant monks, one holding a fire-pot and theother a bellows ; the same monks fighting; a friarand a tinker having a jollification together; and acloven-hoofed animal reading a breviary and… … In Ecclesiastical Architecture 245 in the beast-epos discharges the grave functions ofan ecclesiastic. At Calcar the hare plays the bag-pipe, and on the back of one of the stalls reclinesa queer man-monster with the breasts of a woman,the feet of a goat, fins on his legs, faces on hisshoulders and…
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