A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 36
om(vii. 25). Specula sine macula. The explanation of the seven joysand the seven sorrows of the Virgin,as well as that of the mysteries of theRosary, will be found, by reference tothem in their alphabetical order, inthe next division of this book. IX. SYMBOLS OF THEEVANGELISTS. When the Evangelists… … Tetramorph. 18 SYMBOLISM IN ART. earliest symbol of the Evangelists was a Greek cross, witli a scrollor book in each angle, — emblems of the writers of the four Gospels.The second symbol was that of the lour rivers, which rise in Para-dise. Sometimes the Saviour with a lamb, or the symbolic…
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