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Byzantine art and archaeology (1911)

Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 331

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© a © _j © . © _ II 6.1 2^ p, 2 c3 a> m © 308 MUEAL PAINTING crushed and buried by the fall of buildings above it in the ninth century, received its decoration at various times between the sixth (possibly even the fifth) and :~hth centuries. The oldest work is seen in the lowest layer in the… … Fig. 187. Mural paintings in Sta Maria Antiqua, Rome.(N. H. J. Westlake : History of Design in Mural Painting.) the second layer should not be much later than the middle ot the seventhcentury, as the inscriptions on the scrolls held by the Fathers of the Church arederived from the Acta of the…

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