Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 106
d wasdestined to hold that position for nearly seven hundred years.1 Politicallydependent upon Constantinople down to the ninth century, she remainedfaithful in freedom to the old allegiance ; and though, as in the twelfthcentury, relations were sometimes strained, her traders were too prudent… … Fig. 46. Silk tapestry of the sixth century from Egypt.(Victoria and Albert Museum.) down to the private houses still visible along her canals. Through allthese centuries Eastern artists in mosaics and Eastern painters foundSb home in the city of the lagoons. Venetian sculptors reproduced instone…
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