Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 317
ches are marked bygreat uniformity : the artists are obedient to the iconographical canons of theirtime, and originality is seldom found either in subject, conception, or intechnique. Where it does occur, as at Mistra, it is doubly impressive. At Athens, the Parthenon, which was used as a church… … s Z Fig. 179. Saints : mural painting in the Parthenon, Athens.(N. H. J. Westlake : History of Design in Mural Painting.) the narthex. Here there are three tiers of single figures rather above life size,possessing repose and dignity, and perhaps of the eleventh century: they are inred outline,…
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