Fictitious and Symbolic Creatures in Art
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- نویسنده : John Vinycomb
Description
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. حق تکثیر: این کتاب اولین بار در سال 1906 منتشر شده است و در سال 2015 سایت Global Grey آن را به صورت رایگان دوباره منتشر کرده است. حق نشر آن آزاد است.
