Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 561
mentation which the West aban-doned with the rise of the Gothic style. In a word, Byzantine goldsmithswork, though often sumptuous and highly decorative, is perhaps moreconservative than any branch of a very conservative art. Before we examine the more important examples of Byzantine workwhich have… … Fig. 318. Silver paten of the eleventh century in the Treasury of the Cathedral of Halber-stadt. (From an electrotype in the Victoria and Albert Museum.) Pp. 553-4. the wealthy classes of his day, who covered themselves with jewels andembroidered robes, while their very horses had golden bits-.1…
Art, Byzantine · Christian antiquities · Christian art and symbolism
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