OR,

THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN ART
IN THE MIDDLE AGES.

BY THE LATE

ADOLPHE NAPOLÉON DIDRON.

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY E. J. MILLINGTON, AND COMPLETED
WITH ADDITIONS AND APPENDICES

BY

MARGARET STOKES.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

THE TRINITY: ANGELS: DEVILS: DEATH: THE SOUL: THE CHRISTIAN SCHEME:
APPENDICES.

WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS,

LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET,

COVENT GARDEN.

1891.

REPRINTED FROM THE STEREOTYPE PLATES BY WM. CLOWES & SONS, LTD.,

STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOLS. I. AND II.

431

INDEX.

440

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOL. II.

PAGE

AN ANGEL ASSISTING THE CREATOR

14

THE TRINITY IN COMBAT WITH BEHEMOTH AND LEVIATHAN
THE TRINITY AT THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST

THE TRINITY IN THREE HUMAN PERSONS OF IDENTICAL FIGURE
THE THREE DIVINE PERSONS FUSED ONE INTO THE OTHER
THE TRINITY UNDER THE FORM OF THREE CIRCLES.
THE DIVINE TRIPLICITY, CONTAINED WITHIN THE UNITY.
THE THREE FACES OF THE TRINITY ON ONE SINGLE HEAD AND
ONE SINGLE BODY

42

44

46

51

53

THE THREE DIVINE FACES WITH TWO EYES AND ONE SINGLE.
BODY

THE DIVINE PERSONS DISTINCT

57

64

THE HOLY GHOST DESCENDING FROM THE FATHER UPON THE SON
THE HOLY GHOST PROCEEDING FROM THE FATHER AND THE SON,
AND RE-ASCENDING FROM THE SON TO THE FATHER
THE HOLY GHOST, NOT PROCEEDING EITHER FROM THE FATHER
OR THE SON.

THE THREE DIVINE HEADS WITHIN A SINGLE TRIANGLE
THE TRINITY IN ONE GOD SUPPORTING THE WORLD.

73

76

THE TRINITY IN ONE SINGLE GOD HOLDING THE BALANCES AND
THE COMPASSES

78

THE TRINITY IN HUMAN FORM WITH CRUCIFORM NIMBUS AND
AUREOLE OF FLAME

THRONES: FIERY TWO-WINGED WHEELS.

SCULPTURED ANGEL, CHARTRES, THIRTEENTH CENTURY

ANGELS (PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA).