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 150
d smoke, have heads like lions, tails likeserpents, armed at the end by heads which poisonand slay. This diabolical company is very monstrous. It is con-ceived in such proportions as to furnish forms of horrorfor all demons engendered from it and represented inimages of plastic art. On the ancient… … Fig. 185.* lypse called the Old Serpent, the Great Dragon Satan, theDevil properly so called, the king of the bottomless pit,the Exterminator.
Christian art and symbolism · Art, Medieval
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