The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 326
* Amandaire—almond-shaped. Strictly speaking, the aureola is the nimbus of the wholebody, as the nimbus is the aureola of the head. In Fairholts Dictionary of Terms in Art isan engraving showing a saint standing in the centre of an almond-shaped aureola —[Ed.] GLA SS-PAINTING. 257 not without… … Fig. 232.—Fragment of a Church-window, representing the Prodigal Son. Thirteenth Centurj.(Presented to the Cathedral of Bourges by the Guild of Tanners.) The architecture of the thirteenth century, according to the judiciousremarks of Champollion-Figeac, by its style of moulding, which is…
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