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History of mediaeval art (1887)

Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 145

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he figures being designated by inscrip-tions. A sarcophagus in the church of the Franciscans at Spalatro,which cannot be of a much more recent date, is of quite a differentstyle, the passage of the Red Sea by the Israelites and the destruc-tion of Pharaoh and his army being represented in a manner… … Fig. 62.—The Passage of the Red Sea. Relief upon a Sarcophagus in Spalatro. from the fifth century, are carved with subjects from both the Oldand the New Testaments, the figures being placed together withoutplan or division, and in a very different arrangement from thoseupon the sarcophagus of…

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