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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 119

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to carry out this portion of his work, andthe following account of the Iconography of Angels is extracted and con-densed from his essays on the subject in the Annales Archéologiques, vol,xi. pp. 346, 362 ; xii. p. 168 ; xviii. p. 72. 108 CHRISTIAN ICONOGRAPHY. script of the eleventh century, in the… … Fig. 164. standing in serried ranks behind, none of whom have wings.Piero della Francesca also, in his Presepio, in the NationalGallery of London, paints the noble forms of five winglessangels, who have walked across the hills to sing theirsimple hymn in the stable at Bethlehem (see Fig. 154).t]â *…

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