Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 141
ence before the Christian era: it seems to come in with the artof Gandhara, which sought its models at an already contaminated source,perhaps in Syria or Anatolia. This suggests the conclusion that coloristictreatment, in its uncompromising form, originated not in the Further butin the Nearer East,… … Fig. 69. Marble capital of the fourth-fifth century in the Cairo Museum.{Catalogue general: Koptische Kunst, No. 7350.) P. 172. century B.C.), is in very low relief without violent contrasting shadow,and is based upon a different principle. There are certain stages which an art must pass alike on…
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