18 however, three letters and three rays are sufficient to make the subject complete and perfect. In the example, fig. 15, it will be observed that a fourth ray might have been indicated by continuing one of the ver¬ tical lines under the beard, had the artist desired to represent a cross. Lest… … Fig 16. Fig. 17. Fig. 18. the omission of any indication of a fourth limb is evidently intentional. The position of the head is indeed rarely such as to allow any space whatever for the display of a fourth ray, and in most of the examples engraved, that space is extremely small. Yet, when Ave…
Nimbus (Art) · Christian art and symbolism
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