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 105
ngs. Sometimes Italian artists likoto furnish these angels with a body, and in doing so theycut off the body below the bust.* The lower portion of thetrunk being intended for locomotion, they replace it by * Annales ArchéolotjiqtieSf vol. i. 157, 94 CHRISTIAN ICONOGRAPHY. [D-I a pair of wings.… … Fig. 155. ANGEL WITHOUT FEET OR LEG3. Italian painting, xiv. cent. in which they are illustrated. Thus, at page 452, one ofthese angels, disembodied souls, may be seen. The sealof the university of Avignon, a thoroughly Italian uni-versity, founded in 1303, shows an infant head surroundedby six…
Christian art and symbolism · Art, Medieval
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