Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 498
, and their proportions are often faulty ;thus in the Betrayal and Transfiguration, the figures in the foreground areunduly small. The miniatures as a whole are in better condition than those ofmost Byzantine books : possibly Basilius may have learned some secrets in thematter of priming and… … Fig. 282. Jobs Friends : miniature from the Book of Job of a.d. 905 in the Marcian Library.Venice. (Hautes Etudes : G-. Millet.) Church of the Nativity at Bethlehem, executed a little later and under similarconditions (p. 414). The fifteenth-century Servian Psalter in the Hof- und Staatsbibliothek…
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