Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: April 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780766150027
Subjects: Religious Buildings; Architecture
First sentence: ALEXANDER THE GREAT, in addition to his military exploits and political achievements, also gave a new impulse and direction to the development of natural history in Greece by supplying his tutor, Aristotle, with specimens and more or less accurate descriptions of animals native to the lands he had conquered.