The image of an eagle in the art and world history
 

EAGLE (generally) - http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB
Aphrodite Eagle
Ganymede with the eagle
Eagle and Eros

A few examples of the use of this image.

The first coat of arms of Odessa was approved in 1798 under Emperor Paul the First. Then Odessa was part of the Russia Empire and therefore on the emblem was a double-headed eagle Russia Empire. Due to the fact that for Paul the First was a coat of arms of Russia, than later, and on the arms of Odessa has remained a two-headed eagle - a Maltese cross on his chest.

OTROK NIKODIM,
Few militarian with an eagle .., Russian and Germanic (politically correct) ...

And some more ... Here, Germany, Italy and Byzantium ...

http://www.silaev-ag.ru/public/adel - the image in the history of Russian heraldry
http://www.portal-slovo.ru/art/36111.php - The specificity of the artistic image and perception of the canon in the art of the early Scythian time
http://art.ioso.ru/seminar/2008/proj...olica/1-2.html - history of use of the image of an eagle in Russia's state symbols
http://art.ioso.ru/seminar/2008/proj...olica/1-2.html - the iconography of the heraldic eagle of Germany and Prussia
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%...BE%D1%80%D1%84 - TETRAMORF
http://www.rossia3.ru/ideolog/nashi/evola_bessmert - Julius Evola: Orel. Immortality as a heroic privilege
http://www.trajan.ru/potok.html - Notebook collector. history of the eagle.
http://goldarms.narod.ru/opus1.htm - the appearance of double-headed eagle in Russia, Byzantium, Germany
http://www.excurs.ru/rus/Heraldry_rus.htm - the origin of Russia's state emblem
http://myth.boom.ru/myth10.htm - mythological images in the Scythian-Sarmatian culture
http://newtimes.ru/articles/detail/3584/ - Secrets of the old synagogue. Where in the Jewish painting double-headed eagle.
http://www.simbolarium.ru/simbolariu...-o/om/orel.htm - "light, victory, strength, power, consciousness
Thanks to his keen eyesight, eagle considered to be the embodiment of all-seeing eye, of Providence, or God, he is the second figure of a triad of solar, solar bird in all cultures.

Eagle - a symbolic fire-bird, the messenger between the Sun and Earth, the mediator between gods and humans, the satellite or the very embodiment of the gods (Vishnu, Zeus, Jupiter, whose beam of lightning - in its talons) and famous characters (eg Gore - the Egyptian god of the sun with an eagle's head), the eagle is a symbol of St. John the Evangelist.
On the wings of an eagle, carrying the solar disk, in the culture of the Chaldeans, Syria, Egypt and the Yucatan symbolize rebirth.
About In Syria and Rome, the eagle soars up to heaven, is the conductor of souls to the underworld, the messenger update ... "