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History of ancient, early Christian, and mediaeval painting (1880)

Woltmann, Alfred Friedrich Gottfried Albert, 1841-1880, Woermann, Karl, 1844-1933, Colvin, Sidney, Sir, 1845-1927 · New York : Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 492

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h Aristotle, Music with Tubalcain swinging the hammer above the anvil, Astro-nomy with Ptolemy, Geometry with Euclid, Arithmetic with Pythagoras; then thethree Theological Virtues, Charity (figured as Love with bow and arrow), Hope, MEDIAEVAL PAINTING—FINAL PERIOD. 461 and Faith, with Augustine and… … with the model of a church, and Human Law with sword and globe, at theirfeet a Pope and Emperor respectively (Fig. 128). Above these tiers of sittingfigures rises a third tier, in the centre of which sits Thomas Aquinas on arichly decorated throne and under a canopy, while below him cower…

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