A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 35
Tetramorph. 18 SYMBOLISM IN ART. … earliest symbol of the Evangelists was a Greek cross, with a scrollor book in each angle, — emblems of the writers of the four Gospels.The second symbol was that of the four rivers, which rise in Para-dise. Sometimes the Saviour with a lamb, or the symbolic AgnusDei, was represented on an eminence,…
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