Christian iconography; or, The history of Christian art in the middle ages (1851)
Didron, Adolphe Napoléon, 1806-1867, Millington, Ellen J, Stokes, Margaret, 1832-1900 · London : H. G. Bohn · leaf 103
preferred representingangels under the human form. Asregards the ideal, Latin nations aredivisible into two classes : ultramon-tane or Italian, and western. Italians,nearest to that Greece who plantedher foot among them at Venice, atEavenna, and throughout all Sicily, * Et omne corpus earum… … Fl!;. 153.—SCULPTURfO) ANGEL, CHARTRES, XIII. CENT. [D.] ANGELS IN WESTERN AET. 93 love to spiritualise the angels. They often leave themnothing more of the human form than the head, that is,the seat of intelligence. Nothing is more common, even inthe paintings of Perugino, at the dawn of the…
Christian art and symbolism · Art, Medieval
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