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 187
ping for the dead, upon a bas-relief ofPrometheus in the Capitol.* M. Collignon enumerates twelve instances of the figureof Psyche represented as an emblem of the soul uponChristian monuments of an early date; eight on sarco-phagi ; one on the bottom of a painted cup found in thecatacomb of Flavia… … Fig. 214. human body, in the mosaics of St. Marks at Venice,which is illustrated by Lady Eastlake in the History ofour Lord in Art, page 90 ; where the Creator, or theSaviour, for he wears the cruciform nimbus, lays the Soulon Adams breast, still holding it by one wing. In Byzantine art the soul…
Christian art and symbolism · Art, Medieval
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![An illustration from Omnia D. And. Alciati emblemata : ad quae singula, praeter concinnas acutásque inscriptiones, lepidas & expressas imagines, ac caetera omnia, quae prioribus nostris editionibus cúm ad eorum distinctionem, tum ad ornatum & correctionem adhibita continebantur, : nunc primùm perelegantia persubtiliáq[ue] adiecta sunt epimuthia, quibus emblematum amplitudo quaecunq[ue] in iis dubia sunt aut obscura, tanquam perspicuis illustrantur (1566)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-omniadandalciat00alci-23-13.webp)
