mployed to demonstrate the presence of God. The arch-angel Gabriel has announced to the Virgin Mary the intended incarnation, and received her assent, when the following sentence occurs within a parenthesis. (“ tl)e Ijolp go sit tfcscenifit, fantf) M5 temps, to o’ latp ; tl)c Soitc of tljc… … Saviour is represented as seen from be- Fig. 13. hind, a position very unusual, if not unique, and the nimbus. Fig. 12. The Almighty Father, From an early Italian painting on wood. Engraved in Agineourt’s History of Art, vol. iii., plate cxi. * Hone’s “ Ancient Mysteries described” from Cotton M.…
Nimbus (Art) · Christian art and symbolism
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