Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 678
653 The rarer type, in which the angel finds the Virgin drawing water from thewell, also based upon the apocryphal Gospels, is not favoured by later Byzantineartists. In the later periods the Virgin is commonly seated ; the standing type,which is found on the early ampullae at Monza (p. 623), and… … Fig. 415. The Nativity, Washing of the Child, and Annunciation to the Shepherds :mosaics of the fourteenth century in Kahrie Djami, Constantinople. (Sebah and Joaillier). animation, and is seen as it were flying forward or kneeling ;* the wool andbasket are absent, and the scene is usually enacted…
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