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A handbook of pictorial art (1875)

Tyrwhitt, R. St. John (Richard St. John), 1827-1895, Macdonald, A. (Alexander), 1839-1921 · Oxford, The Clarendon press · leaf 68

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Gnosticism and of idolatry alike pre-venting much more ; though, as our quotations in the lastChapter prove, a much wider choice of subject was allowedfor pastime, or indeed to adorn buildings or catacombs,and to accompany the more significant pictures. But theseremnants of the skill and sense of… … Fig. I. which the first revival of Art assumed. We have alreadyspoken of that revival as the l^yzantine Renaissance, for BYZANTINE AND GOTHIC WORK. 49 want of a better title, and mentioned that the name Byzan-tine probably dates from the partial recovery of Italy byBelisarius\ The architecture of…

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