Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 183
enth century, because the Sixth Council of Constantinople forbadethe representation of Christ as the lamb. The symbolism is allied to that whichfound expression in the mosaics of the triumphal arch in Sta Maria Maggiore atKome, and in several of the sarcophagi at Ravenna. A bas-relief in the… … Fig. 91. Marble relief with Kairos in the Cathedral of Torcello. Cf. Fig. 65. (Alinari.) draped female figures, Pronoia and Metanohi. Kairos (Opportunity) wasregarded as the type of human life,2 and continued popular in later periods ofByzantine art; an early example of this figure is found on a…
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