Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 214
hardly everdecorated behind, Byzantine panels and devotional tablets are frequentlycarved on the back, most commonly with a decorative cross. Thearchitectural canopy which is such a constant feature in the Westduring the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries is less conspicuous in theEast. A figure… … Fig. 114. Central panel from one leaf of a com-posite diptych of the sixth century. (John Rylands 190 SCULPTURE elaborate than that of a fourteenth-century French panel with its intricatecrocketed gables and ornamented spandrels. The leaves of the Byzantinetriptych are not attached by means of…
Art, Byzantine · Christian antiquities · Christian art and symbolism
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