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Byzantine art and archaeology (1911)

Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 273

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heirrespective sources. See the notice in B. Z., xix, p. 240. 248 PAINTING set, and the tendency to the repetition of stock motives was yet furtherincreased. It is stated in the Caroline Books that the contemporary Greeksregarded painting as a consecrated art: cllcant enim artem pictoriampiam esse,… … Fig. 153. Painting in the dome of the Church of the Kedeemer, Athens.(N. H. J. Westlake, History of Design in Mitral Painting.) P. 293. of the Church, always rivalling those of prince and nobles, in later centuriesexcelling them, undoubtedly gave to religious art a real and growing pre-ponderance.…

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