[Redbook8:312][19910306:0930u]{Romanesque Art [continued (18)[&c – Mandorla]}[6th March 1991]
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‘Mandorla (It[alian], “almond” in early Christian art, an almond-shaped outline around a divine personage (especially Christ) showing him endowed with divine light. It was abandoned in the Renaissance.’
– E[ncylopaedia of] V[isual] A[rt] 9:756
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