A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 422
tion and right use of symbols andemblems. A symbol is a picture, sign, orcharacter by which something other than thatportrayed is suggested to the mind; and itmay signify a person, a fact, a virtue, a mys-701 SYMBOLOGY tery, a spiritual idea, or it may be manifoldin its meaning and stand for all of… … Switzerland, ARrHiTEOTURK of. Town Hall ofZurich; c. 1700. virtue, Hope; of a mystery, The Passion;and it is the Standard of Salvation, and thussymbolizes a spiritual idea. An Emblem, inChristian symbology, is a device or objectbelonging to some particular person, and isemployed to distinguish that…
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