The book of American interiors, prepared by Charles Wyllys Elliott from existing houses; with preliminary essays and letterpress descriptions; illustrated in heliotype (1876)
Elliott, Charles Wyllys, 1817-1883 · Boston, J.R. Osgood and Co. · leaf 62
THE LIBRARY. 55 with whom by and by were associated the illuminators. This roomwas the Scriptorium, and here were made most of the books of theMiddle Ages; here, too, was born for modern times pictorial art.The illuminators and miniature-painters of those days were manyof them artists in feeling-… … tin was sent from Rome to christianize the pagans of Kent. Hisinfluence was quickly and powerfully felt; and at Canterbury aschool of illuminators was formed, which produced many works.Some of these early manuscripts exist, while the stone-walls of thatday have gone to ruin. Of these, one called…
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