Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 676
Vatican, whatever its own date, is evidently a copyof an original perhaps as early as the fourth century. Jonah, so frequentlyfound in Early Christian art, is rarer after the First Period: he is nowusually clothed instead of naked.1 The life and exploits of David, though notfrequent in Early… … Fig. 413. The Arming of David : silver disli of the sixth century from Cyprus.(Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan, Esq.) David cycle is the most frequent of all those derived from the Old Testamenton account of the popularity of the Psalter.3 This book is really a link betweenthe iconography of the…
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