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 33
n the interior of the buildings, where they were used, the archi-tectural style of contemporary monuments. They were large and massive,and were raised on clusters of columns expanding at the back in three semi-circular rows. The anonymous monk of Saint-Gall, in his chronicle writtenin the ninth… … Fig. 2.—Chair of the Ninth or Tenth Century, taken from a Miniature of that period (MS. de la Bibl. Imp. de Paris). of Louis le Gros, in the beginning of the twelfth century—the guests wereseated, at ordinary family repasts, on simple stools ; but if the party wasmore of a ceremonious than intimate…
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