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 231
e death of Cain as related in the apocryphal books. Cain, said the rabbis, was killed by Lamech, who in that way involuntarily punished Abel's murderer. Lamech, blind in his old age, nevertheless followed the chase under the guidance oi a child named Tubalcain, and one day as he was hunting in a… … he became violently angry, and slew the child who had counselled him so ill. This legend, only briefly alluded to by St. Jerome,' first appeared in complete form in the G/ossa ordinaria of Walafrid Strabo,^ who had found It in a book, now lost, belonging to his master, Rabanus Maurus. The story of…
Christian art and symbolism · Art · Art, Medieval
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