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Demonology and devil-lore (1879)

Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 · New York : H. Holt and Company · leaf 401

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ampleof the ornamental Anglo-Saxon dragon. The cuttlefishseems to have suggested the animalised form of the Hydra,which in turn helped to shape the Dragon of the Apoca-lypse. Yet the Hydra in pictorial representation appearsto have been influenced by Assyrian ideas; for althoughthe monster had nine… … Fig. 28.—From the Fresco at Arezzo. counterpart in that of Michael with the Dragon,—thefinest representation of which, perhaps, is the great frescoby Spinello (fourteenth century) at Arezzo, a group fromwhich is presented in Fig. 28. In this case the wingsrepresent those always attributed in…

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