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 173
f havoc before her, is said to beespecially fine. The horse, a skeleton form, bounds through the air,while his wild rider, also a skeleton, draws his bow andwith his arrows strikes princes, pontiffs, and all the greatones of the earth, while the wretched and diseased call onhim for deliverance. The… … Fig. 203. of dissolution. Above these again are a company ofyouths and maidens seated by a fountain in happyignorance of the approaching gloom. The framework of the Divine Comedy was not withoutits parallels in antiquity-. Poetry in all time has beenoccupied with the immutable destiny of man, and…
Christian art and symbolism · Art, Medieval
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