Religious art in France, XIII century; a study in mediaeval iconography and its sources of inspiration (1913)
Mâle, Emile, 1862-1954, Nussey, Dora · London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 386
he school the manuscript is written in a French in which various Anglo-Norman idioms are used.- We are far from the many- coloured Apocalypses of Spain, for these miniatures are the work of artists with no real sense of colour. The backgrounds are white, and the drawing is merely covered with a… … Fig. 167. — Rider of the Apocalypse (Apocalypse of Saint-Sever). (B. N., MS. Latin S878) and that the gigantic shrinks to human proportions, for their work though so estimable in other respects, is lacking in any element of the arresting, the rugged, the unexpected. The drawings in the fine…
Christian art and symbolism · Art · Art, Medieval
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