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 336
the fifteenth century. Mediaeval art wassubjected to protest; the desire seemed to be to re-create beauty of formby going back to the antique; but the emphatically Christian individuality SCULPTURK. 279 was no longer reached, and this pretended renakmnci, in which even earnestminds were inchiced to… … Fig. 240.— St. John the Baptist preaching in the Desert. Bas-relief in Caived Wood by Albert Durer. (Brunswick Gallerj-.) affected and ingenious imitation of the Greek style, was introduced intoFrance; it suited the common people, and pleased mediocre intellect. Thesculptors who came at that period…
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