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A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)

Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 38

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SYMBOLISM IN ART. 19 … The John as an emblem ofthe lofty flights of hisinspiration. Others regarded these Beasts as shadowingforth the Incarnation, Passion, Resurrection, ^jr • 7/1^-vo,^ and Ascension of Je- ^^(A^^^> sus ; and they are also ^--i?^ believed to represent ^ the fourfold character (Mosaic, llth Century.)…

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