Half-hour lectures on the history and practice of the fine and ornamental arts (1861)
Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890 · London : Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts · leaf 48
from the diptychs was onlyeffected by a solemn act, a form of excommunication or ana-thema. Hence the total degradation implied by such an actas that described by Anastasius in his life of Pope Agatho, ALTAR-PIECES. 31 in which he says: They took away from the diptychs ofthe churches, from the… … Ancient Picture with folding Doors (triptych) hanging on a WalLFrom a Painting found in Pompeii. Thus the altar-piece, so important in the history of Italianand German painting that the art for centuries was employedon nothing else, appears at first as a book, and similar carvedtablets were…
Art · Decoration and ornament · Fore-edge painting
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