Christianity and the Visual Arts

By George Ferguson.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1954.
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Fourteen chapters on the Christian symbolism of animals, flowers, the human body, angels, biblical characters, saints, colours, and religious objects.
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By F. R. Webber.
Cleveland, OH: Jansen, 1938.
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An explanation of the more important symbols of the Bible and the Church. Includes symbols for God (e.g. the triangle) and the saints. Illustrated with pen drawings.
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By Carl G. Liungman.
Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1991.
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Brief descriptions of approximately 1,500 ideograms used in the Western world.
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2nd edition. Washington, DC: Gale, 2002. 15 volumes.
An online encyclopedia of Western signs and ideograms with information on over 2,500 common symbols. Symbols can be looked up using a word index or using a graphics search engine.