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 134
s swollen andformless as those of an elephant. The Behemoth of Job(Job xl. 15) eats grass like an ox.^ He is armed witha tail long and thick as a cedar tree. Now the book ofJob, like the vision of St. John, is an eminently Orientalpoem. Such infernal genii as are there described maybe seen on the… … Fig. 174.—EGYPTIAN DEVIL. 124 CHRISTIAN ICONOGRAPHY. [D.] are hideous fabulous beasts covered with extravagantexcrescences, and formed out of all known proportions. Such is, then, the physiognomy attributed to the Geniusof Evil in the East. A gigantic, monstrous, composite,incoherent animal,…
Christian art and symbolism · Art, Medieval
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