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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 145

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have the architecture of the Eenaissance, which honoursfirst principles, and the forms of paganism as well as 134 CHRISTIAN ICONOGRAPHY. of Roman Christianity. Theaccording: to the style of the devil has his phasesarchitecture to whichhe belongs : he is Byzantine or monstrous at Constanti-nople and… … Fig. 183.—THE DEMON AS SATYR, the Renaissance, returning to an ancient Satyr, whichhas the feet and horns of a goat, but the body and headof a man. [ A time came, says M. Reville,* when theidea that the devil had a distinct bodily shape becamesettled ; and this form was that of the ancient fauns…

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