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Byzantine art and archaeology (1911)

Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 145

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. These introductory remarks may be concluded by a short reference totwo points as yet unmentioned—the distribution of figure sculpture in theChristian East, and the use of colour to enhance its effect. It seemsprobable that the greater centres of the sculptors activity were in AsiaMinor, where… … Fig. 71. Our Lord and Apostles : Sarcophagus of Liberius in S. Francesco, Ravenna. (Ricci.) P. 137. more interesting remains have actually been discovered on Anatolian soil;1it may well be that extended discoveries will provide further evidence infavour of a conclusion already plausible on general…

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