La migration des symboles / [Eugène Félicien Albert Goblet d'Alviella].

Eugène Goblet d'Alviella · 1891 · Paris : E. Leroux, 1891. · 69 pictures

A scholarly study of religious and decorative symbols, written by Belgian historian Eugène Goblet d'Alviella and published in Paris by E. Leroux in 1891, tracing how emblems such as the cross, crescent, and winged figures spread between cultures. The pictures are fine line drawings of carved monuments, objects, and reliefs, and a designer could draw on their stylized birds, winged guardians, and ornamental motifs for patterns and heraldic devices.

Symbolism

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