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 188
OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY summarised legends dating back to remotest antiquity. I have no doubt that the short treatise De ortu et orbitu Patrum attributed to Isidore of Seville, was the main source of all that the Middle Ages related of the prophets.' It is a kind of biographical dictionary in… … Fig. 86.— Prophi:i > ; Am however, owes little to these legends. The apocryphal history of the prophets is far from having the miportance in medieval art of the apocryphal history of the apostles. The thirteenth century, moreover, had another manner of distinguishing the prophets. In their hands it…
Christian art and symbolism · Art · Art, Medieval
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