Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 108
ceof the Eastern Church and the Eastern monastic tradition that in the earlyeleventh century St. Nilus, a Basilian monk from Calabria, migrated north-ward to the neighbourhood of Rome and there founded the monastery ofGrottaferrata. The buildings, with their fine mosaics, are still standingto-day… … Fig. 47. Silk textile, with elephants andwinged monsters, in the Kunstgewerbe-Museum, Berlin. (From a water-colour inthe Victoria and Albert Museum.) P. 595. 1 Lenormant, Gaz. arch., 1883, pp. 54-5, 233 ff. For Saracenic influence on the illu-minators art at Monte Cassino, see E. Bertaux, IS Art…
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