Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 279
sformed atraditional art. But the Crusades had brought East and West together,and there resulted a ferment of ideas by which the Byzantine Empirewas insensibly affected. The earliest manifestations of the new spiritappeared too soon in the East to owe their existence to a direct influenceof Giotto… … Fig. 157. The Descent into Hell (Anastasis),from a twelfth-century Gospel in the BritishMuseum. (Harley 1810.) MUBAL PAINTINGS AND PANELS 255 comparable to that which, in another sphere of knowledge, physiologistsdescribe as germinal interfusion. Under the new tendencies Byzantineart became more…
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