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Byzantine art and archaeology (1911)

Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 645

An illustration from Byzantine art and archaeology, 1911, leaf 645
arch, the lower two, animals, birds and foliatedesigns in geometrical compartments. The figures are damascened in silver,and each is accompanied by a name similarly encrusted. Other doors after theByzantine style were made for S. Marco in the twelfth century.1 The damas-cened doors of the Mausoleum… … Fig. 393. Bronze censer of about the seventh century. (British Museum.) half of the twelfth century, Italians preferred to decorate their doors withfigures in relief, though even here they resorted to Byzantine ivories as modelsfor their subjects (cf. p. 220).3 The Byzantine style of damascening…

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