Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 123
Ireland havesurvived: it is only from the seventh century at earliest that materialexists for the study of Celtic Christian art. This material confirms thehistorical statements as to the connexion of the Irish Church with theorientalized Gallican Church. The Irish illuminated MSS. contain… … Fig. 57. David killing the bear : silver dish found near Kyrenia and now at Nicosia. supplied the models. The earliest example of such a seated Evangelistknown to us is the St. Mark of the Codex Rossanensis (see Ch. VIII), and thetype is derived from pagan forms based in the first instance on…
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