The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 494
Fig. 323.—Belfry of Brussels (Fifteenth Century), from an engraving of the Seventeenth Century. spontaneously creating of herself any style, Italy, among all the nations ofEurope, was the country which had most successfully resisted the profound … 406 ARCHITECTURE. darkness of barbarism, and the first on which the light of modern civilisationshone. At the period of this new dawn of genius, Italy had only to ransack theruins its first magnificence had bequeathed it to find among them examplesit might follow; moreover, it was the time when the…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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