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 328
for the sitting figures of Christ and His mother (Fig. 239),in the old Church of Santa-Maria Trans-Tiberia, in Rome ; the largeMadonna painted on the walls of Santa-Maria dclla Scala, Milan, which, atthe time when this church was destroyed and replaced by the theatre ofLa Scala, was taken away and… … Fig. 239.—Christ and His Mother. Fresco-Painting of the Ninth Century, in the Apse of Santa-Maria Trans.Tiberia, Rome. (Fig. 240) ; and lastly, the paintings in the vaults of the Cathedral ofAquila. The works of these earliest painters, observes M. Breton, seem tomark the transition from painting…
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