. The near East; Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople. >? THE ENVIRONS OF ATHENS is covered with red tiles. The interior walls lookvery ancient, and are blackened in many places bythe fingers of Time. IMade more than eight hundredyears ago, the remains of the Byzantine mosaics arevery curious and interesting. In the cupola, on agold ground, is a very large head of a Christ (Chris-tos Pantokrator), which looks as if it were justfinished. The face is sinister and repellent, but ex-pressive. There are several other mosaics, of theapostles, of episodes in the life of the Virgin, and ofangels. No
. The near East; Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople. >? THE ENVIRONS OF ATHENS is covered with red tiles. The interior walls lookvery ancient, and are blackened in many places bythe fingers of Time. IMade more than eight hundredyears ago, the remains of the Byzantine mosaics arevery curious and interesting. In the cupola, on agold ground, is a very large head of a Christ (Chris-tos Pantokrator), which looks as if it were justfinished. The face is sinister and repellent, but ex-pressive. There are several other mosaics, of theapostles, of episodes in the life of the Virgin, and ofangels. None of them seemed to me beautiful,though perhaps not one looks so wicked as the Chris-tos, which dominates the whole church. Until com-paratively recent times there were monks attachedto this convent, but now they are gone. I passed through a doorway and came into a sortof tiny cloister, shaded by a huge and evidently veryancient fig-tree with enormous leaves. Here I foundthe remains of an old staircase of stone. As I re-turned to the dim and mass
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