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Byzantine art and archaeology (1911)

Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 56

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ption would perhapshave hindered progress until the West had long ago discovered all therewas to know. How strong that influence was becomes clear to uswhen Ave study the religious art of Eastern Christianity as it becameafter the fall of Constantinople, spiritless, submissive to… … Fig. 17. Part of an ambo of the fifth century; fromSalonika, now at Constantinople. Cf. Fig. 84, (Hantes Etudes :(1. Millet.) P. 145. 32 INTRODUCTORY: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS practice ; it was too incurious, too indifferent to the study of natureand the human model: it grew short-sighted by poring…

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