The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 541
the first millennial.People were, therefore, 4-52 MINIATURES IN MANUSCRIPTS. otherwise employed than in ornamenting books. Accordingly, this epochis one of the most barren in religious or other paintings. Fig. 358represents the last degree of abasement in this art. Nothing in the worldcould be more… … Fig. 358.—Miniature taken from a Missal of the Beginning of the Eleventh Century.(Imperial Library, Paris, No. 821.) the Sacramentary of ^thelgar, which is preserved in the Library of Rouen,shows (Fig. 359). The decadency, however, seems to have come to a stopin France towards the end of the…
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