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Studies in East Christian and Roman art (1918)

Freer, Charles Lang, 1854-1919, Morey, Charles Rufus, 1877-1955, Dennison, Walter, 1869-1917. Gold treasure of the late Roman period, Morey, Charles Rufus, 1877-1955. East Christian paintings in the Freer collection. 1918 · New York : MacMillan Company ; London : MacMillan and Company · 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. Wall-painting in Cell F THE Monastery at Saqqara. 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 community of style is seen in the triple vertical division of the tunic,…

Christian art and symbolism · Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine · Jewelry · Painting, Byzantine

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