An outline history of painting for beginners and students, with complete indexes and numerous full-page illustrations (1902)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, F.A. Stokes · leaf 61
, this manuscript datesfrom the beginning of the sixth century. This picture fromit represents Dioskorides dressed in white robes and seatedin a chair of gold ; before him stands a woman in a goldtunic and scarlet mantle, who represents the genius of dis-covery ; she presents the legendary mandrake… … IlG. 20.—Thk Discovery of the Hkrb Mandragora. From a MS. of Dios- kuriilcs, iit Viiniiii. hand, and is curious and interesting ; the plants, snakes,birds, and insects must have been painted from nature, andthe whole is most skilfully done. MINIATURE. 49 During the Middle Ages the arts as practised…
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