Christian iconography; or, The history of Christian art in the middle ages (1851)
Didron, Adolphe Napoléon, 1806-1867 · London : H. G. Bohn · leaf 70
THE NIMBUS OF GOD. 55 but there is in this respect one singular exception, referring only to God the Father. Artists, for various reasons which will hereafter be explained in the Archeological History of God, have sometimes thought fit to represent the Divinity by one portion only of his body; by… … century,* is interesting ON AC- Fig.20.—THE DIVINE HAND, WITH A count of the peculiar direction rts of te ROUE Roy. given to the branches of the en cross, and of the rays which seem attached in groups of four to the line of circumference. Hither from a feeling of reverence, in compliance with some…
Christian art and symbolism · Art, Medieval · History · Art, Medieval -- History
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