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 108
mind which burns aslight and comes from heaven. This Italian St. Veronica,who died in 1497, often saw angels who came to visitand converse with her. She gives a description of one ofthem in the following passage : She saw that the angelbore a little horn on the middle of his forehead, that astole… … Fig. 157 —SIX-WINGED ANGELHOLDING LANCE, WINGS CROSSEDON BREAST, AHRATED IN EOBE ANDMANTLE. 98 CHRISTIAN ICONOGEAPHY. [D.] mentioned ; the stole is probably the scarf of the neck towhich we referred in a previous passage. As to onrFrench angels, they wear the nimbus on the head and thatis all; no…
Christian art and symbolism · Art, Medieval
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