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 112
ric, not theindividual nomenclature. See Annales Archéologiques^ torn, xviii. p. 72. [D.] ANGELIC HIERARCHY AT IVIRÔN. 101 of an gels. One of the finest examples we can bringforward is to be seen in the great convent of Ivirôn onMount Athos, in the cupola of a church dedicated to thearchangels. The… … Fig. 160. Fig. 161. the west, to his right are the three orders ofCounsellors, to the left, of Governors, and above his headthe Ministers. Each choir is represented by a vast mul-titude of angels receding and ascending, step by step, tillthey are finally lost in the blue of heaven. Commencino-with…
Christian art and symbolism · Art, Medieval
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