Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 684
ntury, show us as a rule thebust of Christ above the Cross, from which it is quite detached. Perhaps the designs on theampullae reproduce those of lost Palestinian mosaics. COMPOSITIONS AND SCENES 659 Land at Monza, the thieves are represented upon their ^ crosses; but thecentral cross is merely… … Fig. 418. The Crucifixion : mosaic of the eleventh century in the Monastery of Daphni. (Hautes Etudes : G. Millet.) though two kneeling figures sometimes appear at the foot of the Cross, possiblyrepresenting Adam and Eve. The sun and moon, henceforth regularly presentare personified as busts, as…
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