Embroidery : a collection of articles on subjects connected with the study of fine needlework, including stitches, materials, methods of work, and designing, and history ... (1909)
Christie, Grace · London, James Pearsall · leaf 144
st orderas well as in the lesser arts. Paulus theSilentiary, when describing the decorationof the great church of Sancta Sophia atConstantinople which was built by Justinianin the Vlth century, says, On the middlepanel of the sacred screen which forms thebarrier for the priests, the carvers art… … Fig. 65 ment, but owing to being composed of Greekcharacters they have no use in the presentday. Perhaps the only Greek monogramthat conveys any meaning to us to-day isthat of our Lord (see fig. 60), composed ofthe Greek letters X and P. In this ex-ample there are further the symbolical…
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