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 533
-sesses many manu-scripts which bearwitness to the markedimprovement in minia-ture-painting at thisperiod; among othersan Ovid of thefifteenth century (Fig.372) ; but in order tosee the highest ex-pression of the art, wemust examine an in-comparable copy ofDantes works, pre-served in the Vatican,a… … Fig- 373-—Miniature, painted by Giulio Clovio, of the Sixteenth Century, taken from Dantes Paradise,representing the Poet and Beatrice transported to the Moon, the abode of Women devoted toChastity. (Manuscript in the Vatican Library, Rome.) Lastly, in the reign of Louis XII., the complete…
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