A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1871)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 32
20 SYMBOLISM IN ART. law ; or with four doctors of the Church, as witnesses to, and interpreters of the truth. In later art the Evangelists appear with- out emblems ov attributes ; sometimes with their names inscribed above or beneath their representations. In speaking of the different stages of… … (Hans Bebam.) St. John. the whole earth. Thirdly, the prophetic symbol ; the winged cherub of fourfold aspect. ^' Next, tiie Christian symbol ; the four beasts in the Apocalypse, with or without the angel- wings. Then the combination of the emblemat- ical animal with the human form. Then the human…
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