Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 93
ovelyshapes of nymph and faun crumbled to dust inthe furnaces; and such was the ruin that whenthe order to destroy these marvels of geniusand workmanship was issued for the fourthtime, by Honorius, the words were added, ifthere be any. But from the ashes of an old art a newone always springs.… … Ciuque-ceuto Panel. THE RENAISSANCE. 89 chral purposes, of their earliest worship at Rome, built churches in imita-tion of them, domed them, pinnacled them,decorated them, and Byzantineart was born, with all the symbolism of its ornament—the lily, the serpent,the sacred anagram of the fish, the…
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