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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 39

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St. John. (Hans Beham.) … (Fra Angelico.) SYMBOLISM IN ART. 21 bore a lamb in his arms ; or again, Jesus as the Lamb of God, is onan eminence, from which flow the four rivers of Paradise, while onone side six sheep leave Jerusalem, and on the other side the samenumber leave Bethlehem. They were very rarely represented…

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