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stianity (B 18), deserve the closeststudy. First, it will be noticed that these mosaics are not beneathour feet but over our head. Fanciful inferences are sug-gested but hardly borne out by farther observation. Thechange of position permitted a change of materials, and thechange has already been… … How Art became Christian 29 colors, a more dazzling splendor, a more exalted theme, allseem assured. But the artist seems not to know that he isfree. He has glass instead of marble, but instead of thebrilliant colors thus made possible, he has painfully imitatedthe dull colors of his familiar…
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