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 404
principlesof the ancients were for a long time applied, as if instinctively. Althoughartists no longer studied nature, they were, at all events, surrounded byexcellent models, which guided them with somewhat imperious rule. We have already seen that, among the barbaric chiefs who invadedthe empire… … Fig. 273.—Altar of Jupiter Ceraunus (Gallo-Roman Sculpture), discovered in 1711,under the Choir of Notre-Dame, Paris. the preservers of the Greek and Roman monuments belonging to thenoblest epoch of Art. The statues were no longer broken down ; theinscriptions and bas-reliefs ceased to be mutilated…
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