This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...angels who guard them, with the tree of life represented by the palm, and with the river which usually forms the frame of the picture. Often also the patriarchs and the apostles figure in these pictures as four-and-twenty elders robed in white, who stretch forth their arms and offer their crowns to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...angels who guard them, with the tree of life represented by the palm, and with the river which usually forms the frame of the picture. Often also the patriarchs and the apostles figure in these pictures as four-and-twenty elders robed in white, who stretch forth their arms and offer their crowns to Christ, while a long procession of virgins and martyrs, richly clad, approach, bearing palms in their hands. Such pictures could Fra Jacomino have seen, if he had visited Rome, in St. John Lateran, in St. Praxides, St. Apollinarius the New of Ravenna, and, indeed, without leaving his own province, at St. Mark's in Venice, and in many other churches since destroyed, on the plain of Italy, where so many were built but many more ruined. What he saw there he explained to himself by the help of the interpretations taught in all the schools, and preached from all the pulpits. But the warlike imagination of the Middle Ages had other needs than the calm and traditional faith of the early Christians. It was essential that the pictures of immortality should be in keeping with the new tendencies and customs. The book of Diceta Salutis, ascribed to St. Bonaventura, describes the company of the saints as one of those crowded courts the pageantry of which delighted the people of that age: "Christ reigns there as sovereign. The Holy Virgin Mary appears there as queen with her followers. The patriarchs and prophets are the counsellors of the prince. The apostles figure as seneschals with full powers, and the martyrs as preux chevaliers who have vanquished the three kingdoms of the world, the flesh, and the devil." Many critics have judged these descriptions to be unworthy of the serious mind of St. Bonaventura, yet, in the memories of chivalry with...
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