IV. Monuments

We now proceed to Monuviental Symbolism. But it will be proper first to consider a very curious subject : namely the reason of the difference between the person- ages with which the effigies of the departed were of old time, and are now, surrounded. In the former case they were always real : Our Lady, S. John, S. Pancras, S. Agatha, and so on. In the latter, they are always alle- gorical : Faith, Virtue, Courage, Eloquence and the like. Nay, in the very ground which is common to the two — the representations of angels — we may observe a great difference : in modern monuments any angel is repre- sented : in those of ancient date the particular one is often named : S. Gabriel, S. Raphael, etc. Now there are, we think, three good reasons to be assigned for this.