The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 550
est specimens of manuscript-painting.This monarch, the founder of the Royal Library, was an admirer ofillustrated books, and had accumulated, at great cost, a large collectionin the great tower of the Louvre. A royal prince, whom we have alreadymentioned as being excessively devoted to artistic…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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