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 418
draperies with small narrow folds and close-fitting, as if wetted ; pearled fringes or ribbons,set off with gems (Fig. 280). We see statues oflofty proportions reared up ; representations ofvarious personages are multiplied on the tombs ;Greek art is disappearing and its learned theoriesare giving… … Fig. 280.—Statue said to be ofClovis I., formerly in theporch of St. Germain-des-Prés, Paris. (Twelfth Century.) 354 SCULPTURE. her lofty dome ere Pisa aspired to have one also. Many a Tuscan ship,launched upon the sea for conquests of a new kind, brought from Greecean infinity of monuments,…
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