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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5302964, member: 110504&quot;][USER=111037]@Only a Poor Old Man[/USER], ...well, Terrific example, by the way.&nbsp; But you&#039;re owed a debt of thanks for your eloquent defense of the Byzantine tradition in art.&nbsp; It&#039;s like all kinds of non-Western art; it doesn&#039;t symptomize an aesthetic <i>deficiency</i>; rather an entirely distinct aesthetic, with its own, resonantly sophisticated conventions.&nbsp; ...Likewise your point that among the Byzantines, coins as a medium were seen in a far different, more utilitarian light than the religious and political propoganda machines (fascinating as they are) that they were for the Ancients.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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