Show symbolism andara an anda dArt art the earliest architecture with which we are acquainted is that of tombs and ana temples and the earliest sculptures and paintings 0 are found associated with them thus art taking its origin from a sacred source and having an especial reference to sacred things partook of their representative character and became essentially symbolical symbolical representation representations of things sacred were coeval with religion itself as a system of doctrine appealing to cerise sense and have accompanied its transition to ourselves from the earliest known period of monumental history E egyptian tian tombs and steles exhibit reli rell religious ious lous symbols still in use among christians similar similar forms with corresponding correspond in meanings thoU though le h under different names are found among the Indian sand are seen on the monuments of the assyrians As syrians the etruscans Etrus cans and greeks the hebrew borrowed much of their early religious symbol symbolism iain lAin from the egyptians their later from the babylonians anS and through them thih this symbolical ima lma imagery ery both verbal and objective jec tive have descended descended to ourselves th the egyptian priests were great in symbolism and so were the Chal deans and so were moses and the pro prophets P bets and the jewish doctors generally and so were many of the early fathers of the church especially the greek fathers philo of alexandria was very learned in symbolism and the evangelist st john ha hak made much use uge of it the early christian architects sculptors and and painters drank deep of symbolical lore and reproduced it in their works kheir successors nicola and his scholars gliotto the painter and his pupils artists in italy and germany the van dycks albert durer and his bis followers and the great masters of the italian schools down to the time of radd Raff raffaelle and titian inclusive were all more or less influenced by symbolism and its principles there are certain associations of ideas and conceived between things intellectual or pertaining to the inner eifel life ilfe the life of tle soul and objective in nature of which mankind have in all ages perceived the relation and felt the analogy this in fact is the origin of symbolism and bathis is the secret of its agreement I 1 imong among nations |