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 516
eenable to disengage himself from the Pagan creeds inillustrating Biblical episodes. Two celebrated manu-scripts of the same time, but executed in France, andpreserved in the same collection, show, by the stiffnessand incorrectness of the drawing, that the impetusgiven by the genius of Charlemagne… … 3 M MINIATURES IN MANUSCRIPTS. were also very inferior, to judge from a LatinBook of the Gospels of the tenth century paintedin England (Fig. 356) ; it, however, provesthat the art of ornamenting hooks had degene-rated less than that of drawing the human
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