Bennett, Charles Wesley, 1828-1891 · New York, Phillips · leaf 156
) have seen in it Basil I., who restored the westernapse of the church into which this entrance leads; others (Venables, e< a^.) call it EARLY CHRISTIAN PAINTINGS AND MOSAICS. 129 jeweled crown. Oriental taste is prominent, and art decadenceis here painfully manifest. The subjection of the… … Fig. 45.—Mosaic of Christ from St. Sophia, Constantinople. of which are of exquisite workmanship but of varied artistic merit,cannot here be described. Each has a valuable lesson for the his-torian of art and for the student of the history of the GreekChurch. Nearly contemporaneous with St. Sophia…
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