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 139
s, and in a scriptural sense they are twobrothers of whom one has fallen, the other risen ; how-ever, the fallen angel is distinguished from the other byhis claws, which project from the fingers and toes of hishands and feet, but there the difference ends, and thegood angel, who is the living… … Fig. 178.—CHRIST TEMPTED. DEVILS IN WESTERN ART. 129 yet it has a bright aspect and eagles wings, as of one thatloved the sun and the noonday. [But more striking still is Le Diable en femme, wherethe tempter is disguised as a splendidly dressed, grandlydeveloped woman, from whose seductions the…
Christian art and symbolism · Art, Medieval
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