Christian Iconography, or the History of Christian Art in the Middle Ages - The History of the Nimbus, the Aureole, and the Glory; Representations of the Persons of the Trinity #272033

If, then, we take a mean number between the largest and smallest amounts, and multiply that number by the of religious edifices known to have existed in France, whether before the fanatical devastation of the sixteenth, or the poli-i tical destruction of the eighteenth century, we shall be able to judge of the vast importance that had been given by Christianity to the imitative arts.