Horns of honour : and other studies in the by-ways of archaeology (1900)
Elworthy, Frederick Thomas, 1830-1907 · London : J. Murray · leaf 58
ference is that del Vaga makes hisrays curve inwards so as surely to indicate not onlyrays but also horns, as we shall prove immediately.Compare these with the Virgins crownin Fig. 6 and with the crown by Giotto(Fig. 22). The plain spear-shaped raysupon her head, in the picture by MinoSenese, have… … 42 HORNS OF HONOUR that we have described, while yet preserving thegeneral contour, and above all conserving the originalidea of the suns rays. Next we find the curving, arching, bending objectsin the conventional modern crown typified by del Vagain the bending of the spikes (see Fig. 20), which…
Horns (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) · Devil · Hand (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) · Terra-cotta sculpture, Italian
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