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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 259

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of the Innocents, andanother still to be seen in the Abbey of Chaise-Dieu, in Auvergne—legendsrather than pictures, and philosophical comj)ositions rather than mani-festations of art. Spain, too, has no reason to be proud of her nationalproductions; for, with the exception of the Gothic frescoes… … Fig. 196.— Death and the Jew. An episode from the Dance of Death. Painted in 1441, in the Cemetery of the Dominicans, Basle. (Facsimile from the Engraving of M. Merian.) and the Toledans (pictures specially worthy of the attention of archaeologists),the only frescoes of Sj)anish origin we can…

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