Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 132
tledisfigured by the defects of the Byzantine style. The manuscriptcontains a series of scientific illustrations—drawings of plants, snakes,beetles, and birds,—resembling in treatment those of the didacticworks of the Greeks and Romans. The Christian codices of the fifth, sixth, and seventh… … Fig- 54- — Jacob and his Sons. From Genesis, now in the Imperial Library of Vienna. the Greek language, now in the Imperial Library of Vienna, inwhich the scenes are depicted with a certain dramatie life and in-tensity, but are marred by careless execution and neglect of all thelaws of composition:…
Art, Medieval
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