Religious art in France, XIII century; a study in mediaeval iconography and its sources of inspiration (1913)
Mâle, Emile, 1862-1954, Nussey, Dora · London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 160
OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY God who sees all things under the aspect of eternity willed that the Old and New Testaments should form a complete and harmonious whole ; the Old is but an adumbration ot the New. To use mediasval language, that which the Gospel shows men in the light of the sun, the Old… … " Even as Jonah was three Fig. 77.— Early chapters of (.;enesis (portion of base days and three nights in the of doorway at Auxerre) belly of the whale, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the depths of the earth."* The apostles taught the early Christians the mystic harmony…
Christian art and symbolism · Art · Art, Medieval
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