The Bestiary of Christ
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0140194495
ISBN 13
9780140194494
Category
NonFiction
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Publication Year
1992
Publisher
Pages
496
Subject
Art
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Description
Religious symbolism.
This book introduces American readers to a compendium of animal symbolism that ranks with the greatest of classical and medieval bestiaries. The Bestiary of Christ was the life's work of the French Catholic scholar Louis Charbonneau-Lassay, who combed the religious traditions of ancient Egypt, classical Greece and Rome, early and medieval Christianity, Gnosticism, Kabbalah, and alchemy to research it. First published in France at the outbreak of World War II and nearly destroyed in the war's devastation, this masterpiece of scholarship has been translated and abridged (from its original thousand-page length) by D. M. Dooling, the founder and editorial director of Parabola: The Magazine of Myth and Tradition, and includes 400 woodcuts by the author.
This book introduces American readers to a compendium of animal symbolism that ranks with the greatest of classical and medieval bestiaries. The Bestiary of Christ was the life's work of the French Catholic scholar Louis Charbonneau-Lassay, who combed the religious traditions of ancient Egypt, classical Greece and Rome, early and medieval Christianity, Gnosticism, Kabbalah, and alchemy to research it. First published in France at the outbreak of World War II and nearly destroyed in the war's devastation, this masterpiece of scholarship has been translated and abridged (from its original thousand-page length) by D. M. Dooling, the founder and editorial director of Parabola: The Magazine of Myth and Tradition, and includes 400 woodcuts by the author.
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