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 537
dary-line of anart which must necessarily degenerate now thatthe printing-press was causing the numerousclass of scribes and illuminators of the MiddleAges to disappear. It has never revived since,but at intervals ; and then more to meet therequirements of fancy than to be of any real use. A few… … Fig. 375-—Miniature from the Prayer-book of Anne de Bretagne, representing the Archangel St. Michael. {Musée des Souverains.) MINIATURES IN MANUSCRIPTS. 469 longed to Henry II., King of France (now in the Musée des Souverains),and the Livre dHeures, executed for the Margrave of Baden by a painterof…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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