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 339
mp;c. But fashion and the prevailing tastenow required from artists nothing but profane and voluptuous compositions,and they adopted this line of Art all the more readily, seeing, as they didevery day, most beautiful works of Christian sculpture mutilated by a new 282 SCULPTURE. tribe of… … the same kind, testify to the irruption of the Greek style, its implantation inreligious art, and its hybrid association with pointed architecture. It is,however, only due to our sculptors of the sixteenth century to say, that when SCULPTURE. 283 they sacrilicecl thcinsclves to tlie rc(iuir(iiKiits…
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