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Identifier: symbolismanimals00coll (find matches)
Title: Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English church architecture
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Collins, Arthur H
Subjects: Christian art and symbolism Animals in art Church architecture -- Details Church decoration and ornament
Publisher: London : Sir I. Pitman
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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o CHAPTER V THE OX, PIG, PANTHER, SALAMANDER We have remarked before that the ox andthe ass are generally represented together onpictures and carvings of the Nativity and ofthe Adoration of the Magi. The ox, or rather the winged calf, is asymbol of S. Luke the Evangelist, becausethe calf was a sacrificial animal, and S. Lukedeals especially with the side of Christs lifeand work which proclaims His Priesthood—the Priesthood of Him Who was at the sametime the Perfect Sacrifice. Such, for instance,is the meaning that S. Jerome gives to thecalf. The man (S. Matthew), the lion (S.Mark), the calf (S. Luke), and the eagle(S. John) are generally represented together. This symbolism begins rather uncommonlyon monuments of the fourth century. Theeagle and the man are placed uppermost ason the Norman west door of RochesterCathedral, where they support Our Lord inglory, and on the south door of QueningtonChurch, Glos, where they attend the Corona-tion of the Virgin. On the Norman tympanum 81 SY

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