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 170
er—black-robed—of Homer. The Furies that pursue Oresteson the painted vases described by Pausanias as well as Aeschylus were oldwomen brandishing serpents or scythes.—King, Gnostics and their Remains^p. 162. DEATH AS A WOMAN. 159 a fearful-looMng woman, with wild streaming hair, clawsinstead of… … Fig. 200.—DEATH AS A WOMAN. also a woman, but a woman who may occasionally soften andlead the dying, without fear or sorrow, to the grave, whilein the Pisan fresco she flits in the sky above her doomedvictim like some fearful bat that will drop and fix itself in * In the allegories of the life of…
Christian art and symbolism · Art, Medieval
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