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 410
s representations of the good and the bad were placedopposite to one another ; the worship of the Virgin was celebrated in all SCULPTURE. 347 kinds of artistic productions ; and, in short, sculpture was displayed every-where with an extraordinary amount of richness. Nothing escaped, soto speak, its… … Fig- 277.—Bas-relief in the Abbey-Church of St. Denis ; a reproduction of the ancient Statue ofDagobert I., destroyed in the Ninth Century. figures were then represented as clothed in the Roman style, with ashort tunic, and the chlamys clasped upon the shoulder ; this still con-tinued to be the…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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