Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 250
disposition in a diaper ofinterconnected circles such as we find on Sassanian textiles (p. 590). It would be monotonous to consider in detail the Byzantine ivories of the tenthand two following centuries.1 At their best they attain a technical perfection onlyequalled by French ivories of the… … Fig. 187. The Death of Isaac : panel from a casket of the twelfth century,(British Museum.) P. 230. from the taint of monotony ; they express the same spirit too nearly in the sameway; the convention is high and delicate, but it allows too little scope for theintervention of creative genius. Within…
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