Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 85
eat Tang and Sung painterswho during many centuries of the Middle Ages stood so far above contem-porary artists in other lands. To answer this question it is necessary tosurvey the state of affairs in Inner Asia, where the outposts of Hellenismand of Chinese culture came into immediate contact.… … Fig. 33. Carved wooden lintel of the sixth-seventh century, in the Cairo Museum. (Catalogue general: Koptische Kunst, No. 8781.) Bactria there was a revival of indigenous feeling which continued downto the beginning of the Christian era. The early Buddhist art of Asokastime did not favour the…
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