, and I suppose more evident toyou here in Oxford than to others, forwithin this building you have specimensof pure fresco painting done at Knossoson a purer lime plaster than has ever beenemployed since, and this painting has heldfor, I suppose, three or four thousandyears.* True it has been…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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