Hutton, Edward, 1875- · London, J.M. Dent; New York, E.P. Dutton · leaf 229
t that Roman art, able to speak bujLjncapablg— of song, always gives us. Here we have something at once more gorgeous and more mysterious and more artistic, a symbolical and—hi^ratic art, the gift of the Orient, of Byzantium. A In the best Roman art of the best period there is always something of… … v-2?^^*^ ) .-.•.WNIUb «> I. IVk; Capital from S. Vitale 202 RAVENNA imperial Rome with its philistinism and its puritanism hasmade of the art of Greece and thrust perhaps for ever uponEurope. Here we are free from the overwhelming common-place of Roman art, its mediocrity and respectable…
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