A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1890)
Clement, Clara Erskine, 1834-1916 · Boston Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 37
with the figures of the prophets, all forming a circle. These ideas seem to have been borrowed from the winged bulls, with human heads, found at Nineveh.At length the only symbol retained in the representa-tions of the Evangelists was the Avings. These were at-tached to the human form ; they bear…
Art and mythology · Christian art and symbolism
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