by Louis Charbonneau-Lassay · Albin Michel · tapa dura · ISBN 9782226149053
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«Le Bestiaire du Christ» is Louis Charbonneau-Lassay's treatise on animal symbolism, published by Albin Michel in hardcover (997 pages, in French).
Louis Charbonneau-Lassay studies the animal figures that Christian art used to represent Christ. The work draws on pre-Christian myths, sacred books, Gnostic doctrines, medieval studies and folklore to reconstruct the symbolic language of medieval artists. It includes wood engravings by the author himself.
The subtitle of the work is «La mystérieuse emblématique de Jésus-Christ». It first appeared in 1941 and almost the entire first edition was lost two years later in the bombing of Bruges.
Suitable for readers interested in Christian symbolism, medieval art and the history of religions.
