Excerpt from Christian Iconography, or the History of Christian Art in the Middle Ages, Vol. 1 of 2: The History of the Nimbus, the Aureole, and the Glory; Representations of the Persons of the Trinity If, then, we take a mean number between the largest and smallest amounts, and multiply that number by the of religious edifices known to have existed in France, whether before the fanatical devastation of the sixteenth, or the poli-i tical destruction of the eighteenth century, we shall be able to judge of the vast importance that had been given by Christianity to the imitative arts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.