The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 257
vre. For twocenturies more there was a slow but sure progression, and then the fullflood, the great period, came to drive fresco-painting to the highest pointit has ever reached. This is not the place even for an epitome of Italianart in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, and we… … Fig. 194.—First Picture of the Loggia of Raphael— God creating the Heaven and the Earth. But we must not quit the subject Tvithout mentioning the decorative andless dignified art of sgraffito—literally, a scratch. This style of decoration was generall}^ used for the exterior of buildings,and was…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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