Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . WINCHESTER CH. xxviii] ENGLAND—NORMAN PERIOD 249express Christs vengeance on the Jews, and his arrow Symbolism 1 , . . , . 1 T T 11 1 in Norman points the way his spirit departs through Hell-mouth to sculpturethe spirits in prison\ This far-fetched and confusedtheory at all events does not explain the griffin in thiscapital, who is shot in the chest, nor the trident withwhich the other monster is defending himself. Onewonders whether most of this far-fetched symbolismwas not invented by clerics to give a meaning to thesculptors fancies, and whether the s
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . WINCHESTER CH. xxviii] ENGLAND—NORMAN PERIOD 249express Christs vengeance on the Jews, and his arrow Symbolism 1 , . . , . 1 T T 11 1 in Norman points the way his spirit departs through Hell-mouth to sculpturethe spirits in prison\ This far-fetched and confusedtheory at all events does not explain the griffin in thiscapital, who is shot in the chest, nor the trident withwhich the other monster is defending himself. Onewonders whether most of this far-fetched symbolismwas not invented by clerics to give a meaning to thesculptors fancies, and whether the sculptor had anything
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