Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 144
rs these ivory carvers avoided, in spite of the temptations towhich pictorial models exposed them. They usually preserved a simplebackground, escaping the fate of their fellow craftsmen in Europe duringthe seventeenth century, when the ambition to rival the painter in perspec-tival effects produced… … Fig. 70. Our Lord and Apostles : Sarcophagus in S. Francesco, Ravenna. (Ricci.) P. 137. a pictorial setting. The persistence of this quality down to the thirteenthcentury results from the conservative tendencies in Byzantine painting.The illuminators of MSS. in the middle period were themselves…
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