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 165
us with longdrooping wings ; his head, with heavy parted hair, inclinesto his left with a pathetic expression, and his left hand israised, as if beckoning. A weighty sheathed sword hangs * See Saturday Review, No. 897, vol. xxsv. p. 50. 154 CHRISTIAN ICONOGRAPHY. by his left hauncli. . . . The… … Fig. 197. nificent sketch by a practised and fearless hand ; the objectbeing the expression of the whole rather than any carefulindividualizing of parts. . . . This mysterious figure, fromwings and bodily type, has been thought to representEros ; we should venture to call it Thanatos. The attribute…
Christian art and symbolism · Art, Medieval
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