Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 278
o astructure and vitality is most puissantly suggested. They can only beproduced by repeated washings and hatchings; the colour dries too fast forblending; touches can only be applied side by side or superposed. It isno process for the inspired fury of creation; but it well accords with… … Fig. 156. St. Peter rescued by Our Lord ; niimatui*e of a Psalter of a. d. 1066 in theBritish Museum. (Add. MS. 19352.) P. 470. of the mystical life essential to the sacred subject, the existence which issimple, renunciant, composed. If this is true of painting, it is yet moretrue of mosaic, in…
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