Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 86
essential features must be dismissed as an emanation from theoriental mirage.1 For the foundations of Byzantine art were all laid bythe time of Basil the Macedonian, and no westerly movement of Chinesemodels after the twelfth century can have decisively affected its destiny.During the earlier part… … Fig. 34. The Ascension of Alexander : relief of the twelfth-thirteenth century on theexterior of S. Marco, Venice. (Alinari.) P. 159. know that as early as the fourth century China possessed an art superiorto that of contemporary Europe, so superior that it had nothing to learnfrom the degenerate…
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