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Studies in East Christian and Roman art (1914)

Morey, Charles Rufus, 1877-1955, Freer, Charles Lang, 1854-1919 · New York : Macmillan · leaf 130

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EAST CHRISTIAN PAINTINGS 70 date as that of the covers. This date should be measurably later than that of the painting of Chapel XVII. We find the style of the covers reflected again in the painting reproduced in Fig. 30, which represents part of a group decorating a niche in Cell F at Saqqara. In… … FIG. 30. Three Saints. W'Ai.L-rAiNTiNG in Cell F in THE Monastery at Saqqara. and visible in the exaggerated curvilinear treatment of the hands. The feet dangle, and the artist found it impossible to render the folds of the drapery. We have here a monument obviously later than the covers, but the…

Freer, Charles Lang, 1854-1919 · Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine · Christian art and symbolism · Miniature painting · Painting, Byzantine · Painting

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