The history of Our Lord as exemplified in works of art: with that of His types; St. John the Baptist; and other persons of the Old and New Testament (1864)
222 HISTORY OF OUR LORD. transfigured with immortal youth, like an Apollo guiding the chariot of the sun, are all features which bespeak a classic origin (woodcut, No. 89). Below stands Elisha, receiving the mantle and the spirit of his master, and already divided from him in his humanity, for he… … 89 Translation of Elijah. (Ancient sarcophagus). Catacombs, where, in one instance, there is no chariot at all, the idea being only given by the action of the horses. This subject lost in later times its larger meaning of the Resurrection, and became, in the e Biblia Pauperum,' a particular type of…
Jesus Christ · Christian art and symbolism
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