Half-hour lectures on the history and practice of the fine and ornamental arts (1875)
Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890, Linton, W. J. (William James), 1812-1897, illustrator · New York : Scribner, Welford & Armstrong · leaf 47
om the diptychs was onlyeffected by a solemn act, a form of excommunication or ana-thema. Hence the total degradation implied by such an act-as that described by Anastasius in his life of Pope Agatho, ALTAK-PIECES. SI in which he says: They took away from the diptychs oithe churches, from the… … Ancient Picture with folding Doors (triptych) hanging on a Wall.From 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…
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