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 517
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 … Fig. 354.—Fac-smile of a Miniature drawn with the pen, taken from aBible of the Eleventh Century. (Imperial Library, Paris.) figure. Another manuscript with paintings,called Visigothic, containing the Apocalypse ofSt. John, gives, in its fantastic ornaments andanimals, an example of the strange…
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