The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 561
oundary-line of anart which must necessarily degenerate now thatthe printing-press was causing the numerousclass of scribes and illuminators of the MiddleAges to disappear. It has never revived since,but at intervals; and then more to meet therequirements of fancy than to be of any real use. A few… … Fig. 375.—Miniature from the Prayer-book of Anne de Bretagne, representing the Archangel St. Michael. (Musee des Souverains.) MINIATURES IN MANUSCRIPTS. 469 longed to Henry II., King of France (now in the Musee des Souverains),and the Livre dHeures, executed for the Margrave of Baden by a painterof…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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