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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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together ; they are commingled, and so intimatelyblended, as to present one single skull only, with threefaces. sixteenth century, designed and engi-aved by Matheus Gruter ; it belongs toM. Guenebault, who pressingly invited me to make use of it. (See theAvork of Gruter in the Bibl. Roy, in the Cabinet des Estampes.) The readerwill remark the nimbus, its circumference radiating with teetli like those of asaw, which encircles the head of God, and the similar form of the aureolesurrounding a portion of His body. * There is more of true dignity in figuring God the Father thus measuringthe world, than as holding in his hand a pair of compasses, as in Fig. 149.The Renaissance, whatever may be said of it, infused into ideas and the modeof expressing them, a degree of nobleness rarely seen, especially in Franceduring the middle ages. CHEOISOLOGICAL ICOKOORAPHT OF THE TRINITY. 53 Here the representation of the Trinity is as completeas possible. Besides the triple visage which supplies an
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Fig. 141.—THE THEEE FACES OF THE TRINITY, ON ONE SINGLE HEAD, ANDON ONE SINGLE BODY. A French Example of the xvi cent.* explication of the triangle cut off at the corners by the threecircles symbolising the three Divine persons, a legend isappended, which serves for a gloss, and interprets at the same * The above representation may be seen in a volume of the Hours,piintcd on vellum at Paris, in 152*4, by Simon Vostre. It is besides, very 54 CHRISTIAÎf IC02«^0GRAPRT. time, both the difference and the equality of the three hypo-stases. The difference is read on the sides of the triangle,and the equality converges towards the centre, and meets ina circle resembling those in the corners. Upon the sidesis written— The Father is not the Son. The Father isnot the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is not the Son. Butgoing from the corners towards the centre, we read— TheFather is God. The Son is God. The Holy Ghost is God. This singular subject is transitionary, leading from purelygeometr

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