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Title: Christian iconography; or, The history of Christian art in the middle ages
Year: 1851 (1850s)
Authors: Didron, Adolphe Napoléon, 1806-1867 Millington, Ellen J Stokes, Margaret, 1832-1900
Subjects: Christian art and symbolism Art, Medieval
Publisher: London : H. G. Bohn
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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atoryof the subject, wliich is here inserted, as it will give some idea of the amount ofscientific knowledge generally possessed at that period. Buffamalco died in1340, aged 68. The following sonnet is that written below his painting :— Voi che avvisate questa dipintura Di Dio pie, toso sommo creatore Lo qual fe tutte cose con amore, Pesate, numerate ed in misura. In nove gradi angelica naturaIn ello empiric ciel pieu di splendoreColui che non si muove ed è motoreCiascuna cosa fece buona e pura. Levate gli occhi del vostro intellettoConsiderate quanto è ordinato,^Lo mondo universale ; e con affettoLodate lui che 1 ha si ben create :Pensate di passare a tal dilettoIra gli angeli, dove è ciascun beato. Per questo mondo si vede la gloiia, Lo basso, ed il mezzo, e 1 alto in questa storia. CHEISTIAN ICONOGEAPHY. bare, and crowned with thorns. He holds in his left handthe Cross of the Eesurrection, the triumphal Cross, usuallyborne aloft in processions. His beard is red, and the nimbus
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E MM P-H • D V RAN D Fig. 149.—THE TlUNnY IN ONE SINGLE GOD, HOLDING THE BALANCES ANDTHE COMIASSES. From an Italian Miniatui-e of the xiii cent.* * Jhe above drawing is taken from the Psaltetium cum Figuris, a manu-script of the twelfth century, with Italian miniatures of the twelfth andthirteenth. The miniature from wliich this drawing is taken appears to he ofthe latter period. THE ATTRIBUTES OF THE TRINITY. 79 resembles a disk : there are no wounds in the hands, and onthe feet are shoes like those worn by the Father. The feetof both the Father and the Son rest upon a globe, in theupper part of which shine the sun, the moon, and the stars,while below undulate the waves of the sea, which is ploughedby vessels ; in the intermediate space, rise towns surroundedby verdant meadows. Between the heads of the Father andthe Son is the Holy Grhost, as a white dove with a red beakand outstretched wings : he wears a disk-like nimbus.This Holy Trinity is painted on a gold ground, and isenfra

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