Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 59
self, sharing in this the feeling of their contemporaries of the WesternMiddle Ages; but since theirs was a Church more exacting in its controlthan that of Rome, a Church altogether hostile to monumental sculpture,they lacked the opportunities afforded by the development of the plasticsense. The… … Fig. 19. Capital of the fifth century, Mosque of Eski-Djouma, Salonika.(Hautes Etudes : G. Millet.) sanct tradition Byzantine art is not without analogy to that of ancientEgypt. It had infinite decorative charm, but it grew languid for want ofliving ideas; it too readily abandoned initiative, to…
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