A new light on the renaissance displayed in contemporary emblems (1909)
Bayley, Harold · London, J.M. Dent · leaf 53
EMBLEMS OF PERSECUTION & PREACHING 41 The wing in Fig. 96 seems to have been an emblem of the Gospel. According to Durandus, the origin of eagle lecterns in churches is the passage, “ He came flying upon Fig. 92.-1349. Fig. 93.-1354- FlG- 94 — 1 333- the wings of the winds.” Or the wing may… … be read either as the Gospel wounded and proscribed by the Church of Rome, or knowledge struck down in its upward flight by the arrow of Orthodoxy. Similar in tenor are the ideas underlying the two keys shown in Figs. 97 to 100. Milton makes one of gold, the key of Heaven ; the other of iron, the…
Emblems · Cabala · Printers' marks · Renaissance
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