A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 37
easts is a typeof the royal dignity of Christ,which St. Mark makes so apparent,(iii.) According to an orientaltradition the young lions are born dead, and after three days are made alive, by the breath or theroar of the sire ; thus they are anemblem of the Resurrection, ofwhich St. Mark is called… … SYMBOLISM IN ART. 19
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