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Byzantine art and archaeology (1911)

Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 351

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326 PAINTING the East produced mosaic pavements down to a comparatively late date.In briefly touching upon the different early schools and periods, we mayadopt M. Gaucklers triple classification into (1) mosaics of the Alexandrianperiod : (2) those of the period of the Antonines; and (3) those of… … Fig. 198. A portrait head : mosaic of the sixth or seventh century in S. Demetrius, Salonika.(From a drawing by Walter George, Esq.: Byzantine Research and Publication Fund.) P. 381. Rome and Campania, they bear the visible impress of Egyptian taste.The names of artists, where they occur, are…

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