Faure, Elie, 1873-1937, Pach, Walter, 1883-1958 · New York and London : Harper & brothers · leaf 246
s our desires. Seen through the reddish mist caused by the incenseand the ten thousand lighted candles, the Christ Panto-crator, the Virgin, the apostles, and the saints crownedwith gold and dressed in shining robes, seemed faraway. High up, the great flattened cupola held thenascent dream within… … Ravenna (vi Century). Interior of San Vitale. to the plain. In the ancient temple everything com-bined to associate the meaning of its external formwith the line of the mountains and the surroundinghorizons; now it had turned inward, and Greek natu-ralism was brutally accommodated to the taste of…
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