Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 194
a rosette. Thisis a rarer style of decoration than the preceding, though represented by a numberof examples.1 With the full sixth century these sculptured slabs assume another character.Designs are enclosed in geometrical figures, especially lozenges and circles, formedof bold mouldings in high… … Fig. Closure-slabs of the fountain, Monastery of Lavra, Mount Athos.(Hautes Etudes : G. Millet.) P. 170. covered with circles and interlaced designs between which animals, plants, andcrosses are distributed. The development was complete in the ninth century,the period when the architectural…
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