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 511
444 MINIATURES IN MANUSCRIPTS. Another Virgil, of the date of about a century later, and which, beforeits presentation to the Pope, was one of the most beautiful ornamentsof the ancient library of the Abbey of St. Denis, in France, containspaintings not less remarkable in respect of colour, but… … Fig. 348.—Miniature taken from the Virgil in the Library of the Vatican, Rome.(Third or Fourth Century.) incomparable examples are sufficient in themselves to show the state ofthe painting of manuscripts at the beginning of the Middle Ages. The sixth and seventh centuries have left us no books with…
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