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 151
CONOGRAPHY. [d.] and Eve. We see it represented simply with its merezoological character on a sarcophagus of the first Chris-tian period in the Vatican ; and again it is representedas borrowing the head and arms of a human being, atreatment which Raphael has not feared to adopt in histurn from the… … Fig. 18?.French MS., xiii. cent., Bibl. Nat., TariB. is only a multiform serpent, and it is converted into theseven-headed beast of the Apocalypse, transforming thehydra into the dragon. Each of the horned heads in this seven-headed beast,which is represented in the stained-glass window of…
Christian art and symbolism · Art, Medieval
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