Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 424
r artists. The mosaics of S. Marco at Venice are only in part Byzantine: the famouschurch is a museum for the mosaic of all periods between the eleventh centuryand modern times, many of those of the sixteenth century and later reproducingthe style of celebrated painters. The result is distracting… … Fig. 233. Part of the Communion of the Apostles: mosaic of the eleventh century, apseof the Metropolitan Church of Serres. (Hautes Etudes : Perdrizet-Chesnay.) P. 398. completed in 1094 ; but Saccardo doubts whether the work referred to extendedbeyond the pavement and the apse. Whenever the general…
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