The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 358
-PAINTING. (pictures specially worthy of the attention of archaeologists), the only frescoesof Spanish origin we can mention are the paintings of a few ceilings in theEscurial and in a chapter-room in the Cathedral of Toledo; all the otherfrescoes must be attributed to Italian artists. Whenever the… … Fig. 245.—Death and the Jew.An episode from the Dance of Death. Painted in 1441, in the Cemetery of the Dominicans, Basle.(Facsimile from the Engraving of M. Merian.) rays of a southern sky; for while in Holland and Belgium we notice butfew walls covered with decorative painting, we find a large…
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