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 425
f the sublime by merely striving after a simple and exactimitation of nature. It was by the same course of action that Frenchsculpture always emulated its Transalpine rival ; but, in order to attain thesame end, the imitation followed a different path. In Italy, Art raised itselfto the ideal by an… … Fig. 283.—Bas-relief on one of the Bronze Gates of St. Peters at Rome, representing the Coronation of theEmperor Sigismund by Pope Eugène IV., in 1433. (Sculpture of the Fifteenth Century.) thought ; she did not introduce into the sanctuary of the Holy of Holiesany of those profane and material…
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