Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 91
of Asia came into most direct conflict with that of Hellas; and sincethe love of all-invading pattern entered into the lives of all classes in theNearer East, the resistance to the Greek style was universal and invincible.The greater Greek art had insisted upon a salient central motive, standingas… … Fig. 37. Christ with St. Peter and St. Paul: Sarcophagus of St. Rinaldo,Ravenna. (Alinari.) P. 138. importance. But the desire of the West Asiatic, and more especially, itwould seem, of the Mesopotamian, was to escape the void by coveringit with a continuous repeating pattern, a desire the more…
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