Le Bestiaire du Christ (1940) by Louis Charbonneau-Lassay. A monumental encyclopedia of animal symbolism in Christian art and theology, documenting how creatures from eagle to worm functioned as carriers of Christological meaning throughout Christian history.
The most comprehensive single-volume treatment of animal symbolism in Christian iconographic tradition; a foundational reference for the study of the Christian symbolic imagination.
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