Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 49
e might have been long-delayed. For here all effective figure-art was in the hands of Christians,as in the East it was controlled by Buddhists; it was the orientalizingGreek art of the Gentiles to whom St. Paul delivered his message; and it 24 INTEODUCTOEY : GENEEAL CONSIDEEATIONS finally… … Fig. 12. Carved ivory panel of the twelfth century in the Museum of Ravenna. (Ricci.) art with a living spiritual force was a momentous fact for the futurecivilization of the European continent. For here were being establishedthe peoples of the future, the barbarians whose fathers had never…
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