The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 445
of the sublime by merely striving after a simple and exactimitation of nature. It was by the same course of action that Frenchsculpture always emulated its Transalpine rival; but, in order to attain thesame end, the imitation followed a different path. In Italy, Art raised itselfto the ideal by an… … Fig. 283.—Bas-relief on one of the Bronze Gates of St. Peters at Rome, representing the Coronation of theEmperor Sigismund by Pope Eugene IV., in 1433. (Sculpture of the Fifteenth Century.) thought; she did not introduce into the sanctuary of the Holy of Holiesany of those profane and material…
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