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Byzantine art and archaeology (1911)

Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 681

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656 ICONOGRAPHY The subject, which occurs in Early Christian art, is frequent in later times.An interesting early Byzantine example is in the Codex Kossanensis, where theampler and more historical treatment first appears. Entry into Jerusalem.1 (Cf. also Figs. 13, 143, 149.) Christ usually rides… … Fig. 416. The Transfiguration: miniature of the early twelfth century in the Psalter ofQueen Melisenda, British Museum. (Egerton 1139.) P. 655. down. These people are represented as of childish stature, though their pro-portions and expressions are those of adults: possibly this feature may be…

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