The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 338
-PAINTING. (pictures specially worthy of the attention of archaeologists), the only frescoesof Spanish origin we can mention are the paintings of a few ceilings in theEscurial and in a chapter-room in the Cathedral of Toledo; all the otherfrescoes must be attributed to Italian artists. Whenever the… … Fig. 245.—Death and the Jew. An episode from the Dance of Death. Painted in 1441, in the Cemetery ot the Dominicans, Basle. (Facsimile from the Engraving of AI. Merian.) rays of a southern sky; for while in Holland and Belgium we notice butfew walls covered with decorative painting, we find a large…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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