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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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE above the chancel arch, though in this casehe is carrying out his special work of weighingthe souls to see whether they are fit for heaven.A relief on the tomb of Henry VII in West-minster Abbey shows him engaged in boththe above occupations. Mrs. Jameson gives an interesting seventhcentury example of S. Michael and thedragon, which is carved in white marble onthe door of Cortona Cathedral. We have in the lintel of S. Bees a carvingwhich may possibly be almost as early as this,though modern opinion places the worksomewhere in the eleventh century. It is theonly interlaced lintel known. Various au-thorities differ with regard to the subjectcarved upon it. It may be S. Michael; it may-be S. George ; or again it may be Beowulfwhom we have here. Beowulf was a greathero about whom an Anglo-Saxon epic waswritten in the seventh century. He was nodoubt a real person, and is supposed to havebeen killed by a dragon after an adventurouslife, and buried in a great barr

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  • booksubject:Christian_art_and_symbolism
  • booksubject:Animals_in_art
  • booksubject:Church_architecture____Details
  • booksubject:Church_decoration_and_ornament
  • bookpublisher:London___Sir_I__Pitman
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