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Byzantine art and archaeology (1911)

Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 47

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o late the motives have beenmodified in their passage through Constantinople. Side by side with this living art expressing all that was best in thislatest period, there naturally existed an art of ikon-makers to which theold criticisms may fairly be applied. In this there is indeed much of… … Fig. 11. Side of the ivory casket of the eleventh century in theCathedral of Troyes. (From an electrotype.) P. 231. this art to represent Byzantine achievement in the fourteenth century.For a fair embodiment of contemporary ideals at their highest, we turnrather to the living pictorial art of which…

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