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Byzantine art and archaeology (1911)

Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 130

An illustration from Byzantine art and archaeology, 1911, leaf 130
s not unlike a Byzantine Christ of the tenth or eleventh century,as represented upon ivory carvings of that period; but the Chichesterwork is animated by another spirit, it has almost the realism of South-German art in the fifteenth century. Sculpture upon a small scale is wellrepresented by a few… … Fig. 62. David receiving Samuels message : silver dishes of the sixth century found in Cyprus, now at Nicosia. cross from Alcester:4 the carvers who produced this work were sculptorswith a true conception of form and movement. The large panel at SouthKensington with the Adoration of the Magi is in…

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