The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 301
of the latter country ;but those who, under the influence of a passion for play, had so eagerlywelcomed them, were far indeed from susjjecting that this new gamecontained within itself the germ of two of the most beautiful inventionsever devised by the human mind—those of engraving and printing.… … Fig. 230.—Coat of Arms of the Cardmakers of Paris. GLASS-PAINTING. Painting on Glass mentioned by Historians in the Third Century of our Era.—Glazed Windowsat Brioude in the Sixth Century.—Coloured Glass at St. John Lateran and St. Peters inEome.—Church-Windows of the Twelfth and Thirteenth…
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