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 340
tations in the dark shadows of the Catacombs—the place of refuge to which the earliest believers had to resort to celebrate their holy mysteries—Christian painting made its first attempt to display itself in open day at the time when the new faith found in Constantino the high protection of a… … of the true God, it seemed but natural to seek for other typesthan those which had been consecrated by the fancies of materialisticmythologies. The school of idea, which was substituted for the school of form, desiredto owe nothing to its frivolous predecessor. It would have considered it areproach…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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