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 186
HY OP THE SOUt. 175 his liberated soul may linger near: Also I tliereforecommand my heirs to entomb my bones so that thedrunken butterfly may flutter upon my ashes. * According to M. Gerhard, the genius of death may alsobe an image of the genius that personifies the divine orimmortal part of the… … Fig. 213. the loving and divine principle spread throughout theuniverse and animating each being—Eros the mysteriouslink between humanity and divinity. The soul is seenas Psyche led by Hermes, while the genius vov<s stays * Spon. Miscell. Erud. p. 8, Tabula iv. * Cur animam figura papilionis…
Christian art and symbolism · Art, Medieval
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