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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 82

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eserved the sketch-book in which this architect of the thirteenth century — famous enough to be sent for to far-away Hungary — noted all the remarkable things he came across on his travels/ The opening lines show the old master's fine nature : " Villard de Honnecourt greets you," he says in the… … -Two PARR0(1UET.S (.-\lbuni of \'illard de Honnecourt) Fio. Elsewhere he ing neck.' made careful studies of a grasshopper, a cat, a fly, a dragonfly and a lobster." He availed himself of a visit to a great lord's menagerie " to counterfeit," as he said, a chained lion and a pair of parroquets on a…

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