[5] Dresden Gal.
[6] The Saints who do not appear in these volumes will be found in the ‘Legends of the Monastic Orders.’
[7] ‘Avant le 5me siècle le nimbe chrétien ne se voit pas sur les monuments authentiques.’ (Didron, Iconographie, p. 101.)
[8] A metal circle, like a round plate, was fastened on the head of those statues placed in the open air, to defend them from the rain or dust. Some of the ancient glories are very like those plates, but I do not think they are derived from them.
[9] I believe these coloured glories to be symbolical, but am not sure of the application of the colours. Among the miniatures of the Hortus Deliciarum, painted in 1180, is a representation of the celestial paradise, in which the virgins, the apostles, the martyrs, and confessors wear the golden nimbus; the prophets and the patriarchs, the white or silver nimbus; the saints who strove with temptation, the red nimbus; those who were married have the nimbus green, while the beatified penitents have theirs of a yellowish white, somewhat shaded. (Didron, Iconographie Chrétienne, p. 168.)
[10] In the example of St. Jerome, a lion may have originally typified any hinderance in the way of study or of duty; in allusion to the text, ‘The slothful man saith, There is a lion by the way.’ Prov. xxvi. 13.
[11] Vide ‘Legends of the Madonna.’
[12] In the Spanish schools the colour of our Saviour’s mantle is generally a deep rich violet.
[13] Bologna Gal.
[14] 2 Sam. xiv. 17.