Ormonde Maddock Dalton
British art historian
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| Intro | British art historian | |
| Places | United Kingdom Great Britain | |
| is | Historian Art historian Archaeologist | |
| Work field | Arts Academia Social science | |
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| Birth | Cardiff |
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Biography
Ormonde Maddock Dalton (1866–1945) was a British museum curator and archaeologist.
From 1921 to 1928 he was Keeper of the British and Medieval Antiquities Department at the British Museum.
Works
- Handbook to the Ethnographical Collections (1910) with Thomas Athol Joyce.
- Byzantine Art and Archaeology (1911), handbook of art and artefacts.
- Origin of Christian Church Art' (1923), translation with Hermann Justus Braunholtz from Josef Strzygowski.
- East Christian Art (1925).
He also wrote under the pseudonym W. Compton Leith.