pon the orb so often represented in the hands of the Eternal Father, and of Jesus Christ, and to the similar mound placed in the hands of Christian sovereigns at their coronation. M. Di- dron assumes that the orb, and not a nimbus, is in this instance intended, and re¬ marks that “ Christ would… … Fig. 50. Engraved in Aginconrt’s History of Art, vol. iii., plate 59. From a Greek MS. of the Evangelists, of the twelfth century, in the Library of the Yatican. Fig. 51. Engraved hi Agincourt’s History of Art, vol. iii., plate 39. From a Lathi MS. of the ninth century, in the Library of Minerva,…
Nimbus (Art) · Christian art and symbolism
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