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 408
he beginning of the Middle Ages. MINIATURES IN MANUSCRIPTS. 3f7 The sixth and seventh centuries have left us no books with miniatures ;the utmost we find at that period arc some capital letters embellished bycaligraphy. In the eighth century, on the contrary, tlie ornaments weremultiplied, and some… … Fig. 299.—Miniature taken from the Virgil in the Librarj-of the Vatican, Rome.(Third or Fourth Century-.) was reformed, and the style of painting manuscripts assumed something ofthe form of the fine antique examples still extant at that period. (Fig. 301.)If we would have an idea of the heaviness…
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