The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 539
45° MINIATURES IN MANUSCRIPTS. were also very inferior, to judge from a LatinBook of the Gospels of the tenth century paintedin England (Fig. 356) ; it, however, provesthat the art of ornamenting books had degene-rated less than that of drawing the human … Fl&- 354-—Fac-smile of a Miniature drawn with the pen, taken from aBible of the Eleventh Century. (Imperial Library, Paris.) figure. Another manuscript with paintings,called Visigothic, containing the Apocalypse ofSt. John, gives, in its fantastic ornaments andanimals, an example of the strange…
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