A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 265
so well known to all, that they are easilyrecognized in art. The church called San Paolo delle Tre Fon-tane near Pvome, is built over thiee fountains which are said tohave sprung up at the three places where the head of St. Paulfell and bounded, after being cut off by the executioner. It issaid… … 248 LEGENDS AND STORIES has equalized the temperature, for I could not distinguish the dif-ference. Formerly a magnificent monastery existed here, but threeold churches and ruins, with a few sickly looking monks, are theonly remains of its former splendor. The body of St. Paul was in-terred where…
Art · Christian art and symbolism · Legends · Mythology
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![An illustration from Della nouissima Iconologia di Cesare Ripa Perugino Caualier de SS. Mauritio & Lazzaro : parte prima [-terza] : nella quale si descriuono diuerse imagini di virtu, vitij, affetti, passioni humane, arti, discipline, humori, elementi, corpi celesti, prouincie d'Italia, fiumi tutte parte del mondo, & altre infinite materie : opera utile ad oratori, predicatori, poeti, pittori, scultori, disegnatori, & ad'ogni studioso : per inuentar concetti, emblemi, ed'imprese, per diuisare qual si voglia apparato nutiale, funerale, trionsale : per rappresentar poemi drammatici, e per figurare co' suoi proprij simboli ciò che può cadere in pensiero humano : ampliata in quest' ultima editione non solo dallostesso auttore di trecento e cinquantadue imagini con molti discorsi pieni di varia eruditione & con molti indici copiosi (1625)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-dellanouissimaic13ripa-251-113.webp)
