This tetramorph bore the throne or chariot of the Lord. They correspond to the vision of the so-called “four living beings” of Ezekiel: the prophet describes four beings: “As for the appearance of their faces: the four had the face of a human being, the face of a lion on the right side, the face of an ox on the left side, and the face of an eagle” (Ezekiel 1:10). Such images, unlike some other traditional zoomorphic motifs of Christian art, have biblical bases. John the Evangelist have to do with wine and snakes? ![]() From the Greek tetra (“four”) and morphé (“form,” or “shape”) the word applies, in general, to any representation of a set of four elements.īut in Christian art, the Tetramorph refers almost exclusively to the most common way to depict the four Evangelists, each one of them either accompanied or represented by a figure, three of them being animals and only one (the one that either accompanies or represents Matthew) human or, more often than not, a winged angelic figure. One of the most common motifs of Christian art is the almost omnipresent Tetramorph.
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