Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 58
ss. The position of Byzantium in the general history of the arts in someways resembles that of scholasticism among the philosophies. We find thesame peculiar strength, the same undeniable weakness. There is the samedependence upon Greek forms at second hand, in both there is the austerereserve… … Fig. 18. Limestone capital of the fifth century in the Cairo Museum.{Catalogue general: Koptische Kunst, No. 7345.) the Christian East is a great religious and a great decorative art. Asdecoration it is often of an unrivalled majesty ; as interpretation of humanand inanimate nature it was too…
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