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Byzantine art and archaeology (1911)

Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 481

An illustration from Byzantine art and archaeology, 1911, leaf 481
ly interesting. It seems probable that the whole series of illuminations is intended toillustrate the liturgy of Passion Week in the Graeco-Alexandrian Church.2Kondakoff is probably right in regarding the codex as a product of a realisticand vigorous monastic art.3 The stylistic relations of the… … Fig. 270. The Vision of Isaiah, from the ninth-century MS. of Cosmas Indicopleustes inthe Vatican Library. (Hautes Etudes : G. Millet.) similarity : the colour-scheme is also similar. Affinities less close, but provingthe influence of the same artistic current, are found in the Ashburnham…

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