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Byzantine art and archaeology (1911)

Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 471

An illustration from Byzantine art and archaeology, 1911, leaf 471
Fig. 263. Fragment from the Cotton Bible(British Museum, Otho B. VI). P. 446. 446 PAINTING The Cotton Bible inthe Cotton Library in a. d … the British Museum, almost ruined by the fire in1731, originally possessed two hundred and fiftyminiatures. Only a hundredand fifty fragments illus-trating the Book of Genesisremain, and the majority areso damaged as to be valuelessfrom an artistic point of view.In the general treatmentanalogies…

Art, Byzantine · Christian antiquities · Christian art and symbolism

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