Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 669
?pe of Christ.1 The iconographicaldebt to classical art apparent in the episode is even clearer if we descendto the attitude or the gesture. The Christian gestures of benediction2were originally positions of the fingers indicating that the person repre-sented was engaged in conversation with… … Fig. 408. The Pentecost : miniature from the Syriac Gospel of Rabula (a. d. 586) in theLaurentian Library, Florence. (Hautes Etudes : A. Venturi.) P. 662. palm, while the first and second are extended, is most commonly found inpagan art with this general and secular meaning. The Greek…
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