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 138
that blackens the ground.* It wasonly at the close of the thirteenth century that Satan wasendowed with the hideous form which artists have eversince adhered to. In the first representations given ofhim in a mans figure, they confined themselves to im-pressing a cruel character on his face, and… … represented in the art of the sixteenth century, and evenearly in the fourteenth. In the following illustrationtaken from the Speculum Humanae Salvationis of theschool of Giotto, now preserved in the Bibliothèque delArsenal, Paris (No. 693, fol. 15), and on the curious tapes-tries of Chaise Dieu,…
Christian art and symbolism · Art, Medieval
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