Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 71
einfluence of Armenia (p. 56) can be traced in Russian architecture; and it isprobable that Armenians were active in introducing Christian art into thevalley of the Dnieper. Since the sixteenth century Russian art hasincorporated much that is Western and has attained a new individualityof its own.… … Fig. 25. Limestone frieze with animals, sixth-seventh century, in the Cairo Museum. (Catalogue general: Koptische Kunst, No. 7320.) representation of the human figure upon a large scale, and its sculptureis chiefly confined to the ornamental carving of the non-Byzantine area.It owed much to Mount…
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