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Byzantine art and archaeology (1911)

Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 313

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rk seems to betray the same hands as that in the WhiteMonastery; perhaps the Armenian restorers were at work in both places. There are mural paintings at the Monastery of the Martyrs near Esneh.2 Inone of the sanctuaries there is upon the wall a group with an archbishop namedGregory, a female… … Fig. 176. Angels: mural painting, Monastery of St. Jeremias, Saqqara.(Photo communicated by J. E. Quibell, Esq.) last group: in the dome is an imbricated design. Another sanctuary has inthe apse a large figure of Our Lord enthroned, the face unfortunately obliterated.4The mandorla is flanked by the…

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