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 334
OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY can convert Asia and Greece. He drives away seven demons who in the shape of seven great dogs desolate the town of Nicaea, and he exorcises a spirit which dwells in the thermae and is wont to strangle the bathers.' Repellent as these legends may appear to us, they have… … Fii;. I5r.— ArosTi.ES to the left of Christ (Amiens) ancient world and the time in which they arose. They are a reminder that paganism did, in fact, attempt to wrestle with the Christian Church by means of magic arts, opposing Apollonius of Tyana to Christ, and that Julian and the philosophers…
Christian art and symbolism · Art · Art, Medieval
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