An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations (1883)
Mollett, John W. (John William) · London, S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington · leaf 300
ed with a band of wool. Satyrs. Greek deities of the wooded plains,as the Roman fattns were of the fields. Theyare usually represented as the attendants ofBacchus, or the lovers of the Nymphs, withgoats legs and horns, and human bodies coveredwith short hair ; often with Lacinia on the neck.… … Fig. 602. Device of Charles dAmboise, Sieur deChaumont. Savage-man or Wood-man, Her. A wildman, naked, or clothed in skins or leaves, andcarrying a club. The illustration is the deviceof De Chaumont, Marshal of France (-+- 1510),with the motto, Alitcm aninnini agresti subtegmine scadro, which he…
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