Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 491
her the artists worked actuallyin Constantinople or elsewhere. The second group is animated by a differentspirit. Here the imagination is more free, the fancy of the artist is alloweda wider range, but theological preoccupations are often betrayed by the choiceof subject. It is the art of the monks… … \yTM H LUt LULo C \Ay l CTifrTXD CTLUU O U TT K <*-t y™ C OTD Fig. 276. The Creation of Man : miniature from the eleventh-century Octateuch in theLaurentian Library, Florence. (Hautes Etudes : G. Millet.) illustration is known to us from Syrian work of the sixth century; it will berecalled that…
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