Worthen, William Ezra, 1819-1897, [from old catalog] ed · New York, Appleton · leaf 701
Symbols are the foundation of decorations in the Byzantine and Romanesque.The early symbols were the monogram of Christ, the lily, the cross, the ser-pent, the fish, the aureole, or vesica piscis, and the circle or nimbus, the trefoiland quatrefoil, the first having reference to the Trinity, the… … Fig. 1719. Fig. 1720. i ARCHITECTURAL CONSTRUCTIOX. 685 are represented within these circles. The hand in the attitude of benediction,and the lily (the fleur-de-lis), the emblem of the virgin and purity, are com-
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