Morey, Charles Rufus, 1877-1955, Freer, Charles Lang, 1854-1919 · New York : Macmillan · leaf 97
GOSPEL MINIATURES and a number of other figures, and Adam and Eve appear at the head of a throng of patriarchs and prophets (Fig. 26). Still later the church frescoes and the Painter's Manual add the fancy of angels en- chaining devils, names for the minor dramatis personae, etc. The treatment of… … FIG. 24. The Descent into Hell. Mosaic in the Monastery ok Daphni near Athens. twelfth century scheme to an elaborate panorama of Hell of the kind seen in an ikon in the Likhatcheff collection at St. Petersburg.' Our miniature, by virtue of its symmetrical composition, the omission of Satan, and…
Freer, Charles Lang, 1854-1919 · Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine · Christian art and symbolism · Miniature painting · Painting, Byzantine · Painting
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