Cecilia,
There is a short description of the serpent "a face de
pucelle" in Louis Reau, Iconographie de l'art chretien, t. II:
Ancien testament, p. 84. You might also look in Ernst Guldan, Eva
und Maria: Eine Antithese als Bildmotiv (Graz/Cologne, 1966) and a
book which I cannot find a full reference for, von Erffa, Ikonologie
der Genesis (sorry). I suspect there might be a fairly recent
article on this, but details currently elude me.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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