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 55
the Gospel, were obliged to say mass in fields and publicplaces, where the faithful assembled to hear them, and to take up the cross.Throughout all the periods of the Middle Ages the ornamentation of thealtar was everywhere an object of the most extraordinary pomp and of themost elevated artistic… … Fig. 20.—An Altar-cloth embroidered in silver on a black ground, representing the procession of a friar of theAbbey of St. Victor (Fifteenth Centurj). (Copied from the original belonging to M. Achille Jubinal.) to the eleventh and twelfth centuries. These gold hammer-wrought altarswere chased and…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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