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Byzantine art and archaeology (1911)

Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 155

An illustration from Byzantine art and archaeology, 1911, leaf 155
otamia ;3 while the definitely coloristic methodadopted in the treatment of ornamental detail is an oriental feature. It is-perhaps a further argument that this school of sculpture appears to haveinfluenced the art of Gandhara, the district including Peshawar and the valleysto the north of it,… … LMift^ra^^ Fig. 75. Sarcophagus of the fourth century, Mas-dAire, Landes, France. (After Le Blant). in which the attitude and treatment of the drapery are repeated. It wasperhaps, therefore, through the late Hellenistic sculptors of Asia Minor orNorthern Syria that the Apollo type adopted for…

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