Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 711
ain selected motives 686 OENAMENT will be briefly stated, while a few remarks of a more general applicationwill be prefixed by way of introduction. Of Byzantine ornament in general it may be said that even whenexecuted in relief it almost always aims at a colouristic effect, or imitatesa model… … Fig. 435. Carved ornament of the sixth century, Sta Sophia, Constantinople.(After Salzenberg.) teristics are oriental; for the Greek, and the Koman while still underGreek influence, did not seek so much a contrast of colour as beauty ofline and form, and where any considerable space was to be…
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