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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 313

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d St. ^Martin at Tours, arc mentioned as remarkable; and j^etthe walls of these edifices were nothing but bare stone, without cither orna-ment or sculjDture. To become living stones,* sa3^s !M. J. Duseigneur, they had to wait for another age. The whole of the ornamentation wasexclusively aj^plied… … Fig. 225.—Restoration of a Roman Triumplial Arcli, with its Ias-rcliets. territory, men, or rather groups of men, in whose hearts the cultivation ofArt still remained a living princij^le. This was the case in Provence, roundthe archbishops of Aries ; in Austrasia (Metz), near the throne of…

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