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 434
eir own native genius matured by the lessons of the Italians. There was,therefore, always a French school that preserved its individual character-istics, its generic good qualities and defects, which are so well representedin the sculptures of the Hôtel du Bourgtheroulde, Rouen (Fig. 290). Michael… … Fig. 290.—Bas-relief of the Hôtel du Bourgtheroulde, Rouen, representing a Scene in the Interview betweenFrancis I. and Henry VIII., on the Field of the Cloth of Gold. tion of the Renaissance. It would be, perhaps, irreverent to say thatthis age was an age of decay ; we might fear of desecrating…
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