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 514
le to disengage himself from the Pagan creeds inillustrating Biblical episodes. Two celebrated manu-scripts of the same time, but executed in France, andpreserved in the same collection, show, by the stifihessand incorrectness of the drawing, that the impetusgiven by the genius of Charlemagne had… … 0-.2 s •- II 2 .2 3 M 450 MINIATURES IN MANUSCRIPTS. were also very inferior, to judge from a LatinBook of the Gospels of the tenth century paintedin England (Fig. 356) ; it, however, provesthat the art of ornamenting books had degene-rated less than that of drawing the human
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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