Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 37
rudescence areapparent; from Gaul to Egypt there is a reassertion of indigenous taste.We need not underrate the significance of this movement within theactual limits of the Christian East, but we must not fail to notice itsinfluence in Western Europe. The decorative art of the barbaric tribeswho… … Fig. 6. Bronze steelyard-weight in the BritishMuseum, perhaps representing the Emperor Phocas. INTRODUCTORY: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS 13 of Christian art among these peoples; but the most active disseminatorsof that art were orientalizing Greeks and Syrians (see pp. 23-7). All these points speak…
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