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 311
in, harmonised in their dimensions and materials with the otherfigures. We would not assert that these works, pompously enumerated byAnastasius, the Librarian, corresponded in purity and elevation of stylewith the richness of the materials employed; for we know, on the contrary,that in order to… … Fig. 223.—Altar of Castor (a Gallo-Roman Sculpture), discovered in 1711 under theChoir of Notre-Dame, Paris. into a Virgin. The large cities were not as yet depopulated of theinnumerable crowd of statues which adorned them; and it was only inprovinces far from the metropolis that the images of the…
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