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God's beasts : identify and understand animals in church carvings : the stories that give point and purpose to over one hundred varieties of animal and other figures in our church carvings / M.W. Tisdall.
- Title
- God's beasts : identify and understand animals in church carvings : the stories that give point and purpose to over one hundred varieties of animal and other figures in our church carvings / M.W. Tisdall.
- Author
- Tisdall, M. W.
- Publication
- Plymouth : Charlesfort Press, 1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | N7831 .T58 1998 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 280 p. : ill.; 28 cm.
- Subject
- 500-1500
- Church decoration and ornament
- Christian art and symbolism
- Animals > Symbolic aspects
- Animal sculpture
- Church architecture > Details
- Bestiaries in art
- Church decoration and ornament > Themes, motives
- Animals in art > Religious aspects
- Wood-carving, Medieval > Themes, motives
- Misericords
- Christian art and symbolism > Medieval, 500-1500
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-273) and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 095326520X
- OCLC
- 40500391
- SCSB-12520652
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library