The archaeological album; or, Museum of national antiquities (1845)
Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877, Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866 · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 119
tury is the period to which the largest portion of the illuminated manuscripts now extant belongs; and they present almost every variety of style and execution. We find books of this age illustrated with drawings of the rudest description. But in general the artists of the fifteenth century shew… … which purpose, according to the story handed down to us by Cicero and Pliny, he took for his model some of the most beautiful of their virgins, that he might copy from nature the more perfect charms of each : — i ' ' Comment le bon paintre Zeusis Fut de contrefaire pensis La tresgrant beaulte de…
Great Britain -- Antiquities
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