Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 349
ternal grey-ness. The South foundrest from the glare andglow of noonday inthese sombre splendours.Thus Christianity bothof the North and Southdecked her shrines withcolour. Not so the pa-ganism of Hellas. Withthe Greeks, colour, though used in architecture, was severely subor-dinated to sculpture;… … Fig. 197. Mosaics of the twelfth century in the apse ofthe cathedral at Cefalii, Sicily. (Westlake : History of MuralPainting.) MOSAICS 325 the known. Light falling upon carved forms ... in simple lustre was enoughfor . . . Hellas. . . . Neither the gloomy glory of mosaics nor the gemmedfretwork of…
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