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Tetramorph
Avignon,
1000-1050
Evangiles. France du Sud
(Avignon, B.m., ms. 0022, f. 025v, 22)
Over the centuries, the image of the tetramorph became one of the most recurrent and majestic themes of Christian iconography. It shows the four “beings” surrounding the throne of God that St. John sees at the beginning of the Book of Revelation. The Church Fathers emphasized that this vision echśd that of Ezekiel in the Old Testament and transformed the four “beings” into the four winged animals that symbolize the four Evangelists: the lion for Mark, the bull for Luke, the man for Matthew, and the eagle for John.
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