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Byzantine art and archaeology (1911)

Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 403

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viij 1900j 60 ff. 378 PAINTING dome is reminiscent of earlier times, and does not occur in the renaissance ofByzantine mosaic. Finding that there was an Archbishop Paul of Salonika atthe close of the ninth century,1 he now proposes c. a.d. 885 as the probabledate.2 MM. Diehl and Letourneau agree… … Fig. 222. The Ascension : mosaic in the dome of Sta Sophia, Salonika.(Hautes Etudes: G. Millet.) between the work of two periods can be distinguished. It seems possible, there-fore, that the mosaics of this church represent different centuries. Recent restorations (1907-8) in the Church of St.…

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