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Identifier: handbookoforname1900meye (find matches)
Title: Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849-
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Art objects
Publisher: New York, B. Hessling
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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The Shell. Plate 59. NATURAL FORMS.
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Plate 60. The Serpent, &c. The Serpent. — Human Organism. 93 comp. plate 76), and a single one round the staff of Esculapius.Coiled in a circle with tail in mouth it is the symbol of Eternity ontombs, it is used in mythology, and is an indispensable accompani-ment of the symbols of Envy and Dissension; and the hair of Medusais represented as composed of Serpents (Plate 65). In ecclesiastical art: the Serpent is the symbol of Wi<;kedness,Sin, and Temptation (the scene in Paradise); it appears under the feetof the Virgin Mary with an apple in its mouth. In Heraldry: it isrepresented devouring a child, on the shield of the Visconti, of Milano. Plate 60. The Serpent. 1. Cast from life of a Viper (Vipera herus — Pelias herus) witha Lizard (Lacerta viridis — Lacertd agilis), by J. Eberhardof Heilbronn. 2. Cast from life of a Viper, by J. Eberhard of Heilbronn. 3. Antique bracelet in the form of a Viper, Pompeii. 4. The Snake as the symbol of Eternity, (Gerlach, AHegorien undEmb

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