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Lindsay (1847) I p.xxiii in the table of symbols includes:
The Resurrection - by the phoenix, and the peacock, which loses its rich plumage in winter and recovers it is spring.
In his discussion of Byzantine symbolism at Ravenna at I.103 Lindsay writes:
The bas-reliefs of the ancient ambones of the cathedral, now incrusted into the wall behind the choir, hardly deserve mention as works of art, but are curious as exhibiting, in distinct rows, the fish, the dove, the lamb, the stag, the peacock, &c - “the whole sacred menagerie,” as Mr. Hope calls it, of Symbolism....
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