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 375
must place the Janets,* whoalthough of Flemish origin, are actually French in their style and thecharacter of their pictures. The most celebrated of them, François Clouet,portrayed, with a realism full of elegance and distinction, the nobles andbeautiful ladies of the court of Valois. We should… … Fig. 257.—Sketch of the Virgin of Alba. Chalk-drawing by Raphael. maturity, belongs to the epoch we have made our study. But the materialcircumstances we now mention must be our justification : although the schoolof Bologna gave signs of its existence in the thirteenth century, and underthe impulse…
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