Fictitious and Symbolic Creatures in Art
نویسنده:
John Vinycomb
امتیاز دهید
UNDER the title of this book it is proposed to describe and illustrate only those
fictitious and symbolic creatures which appear in British Heraldry. The list will
include all those beings of whose existence we have not the direct evidence of our
senses, and those exaggerations and combinations of natu ral forms which have been
adopted in the system of symbolic heraldry handed down to us from the Middle Ages.
Many of the ideas of the writers of that period were undoubtedly derived from still
earlier sources, namely, classic story, sacred and legendary art, and the marvellous
tales of early travellers; others were the coinage of their own fancies and their fears.
بیشتر
fictitious and symbolic creatures which appear in British Heraldry. The list will
include all those beings of whose existence we have not the direct evidence of our
senses, and those exaggerations and combinations of natu ral forms which have been
adopted in the system of symbolic heraldry handed down to us from the Middle Ages.
Many of the ideas of the writers of that period were undoubtedly derived from still
earlier sources, namely, classic story, sacred and legendary art, and the marvellous
tales of early travellers; others were the coinage of their own fancies and their fears.
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