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Lexikon der Christlichen Ikonographier. Hrsg. von Engelbert Kirschbaum, et al. Freiburg, Herder, 1968-76. 8 v. LC 71-386111.
Volumes 1-4. Allegemeine Ikonographie.
Volumes 5-8. Ikonographie der Heiligen.
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Each article is made up of three parts: a survey of the sources, biblical or literary; a description of the iconography; bibliography. The first four volumes cover biblical and general themes and the last four volumes cover the saints. Subject index, symbol index. "An important contribution to the history of spirituality and of the theology of sacred art, but also to history in the strict sense, philology, cultural anthropology, and ethnology" (Lumen Vitae, XXVIII [March, 1973], p. 183).

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