Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 281
ch dates to the year 832. The religious wall-paintings of thechurches and cloisters built by Charlemagne without doubt exhib-ited the same features. The cloisters of Fontanellum, Fulda, andReichenau are known to have cultivated painting, and even thenames of several of their artists have been… … Fig. 131.—St. Matthew the Evangelist, from aminiature dating to the eighth or ninth cen-tury. St. Gall. PAINTING. 245 the idea of such mural decorations may have been taken fromthose in the Palace of Theodelinde, Queen of the Lombards, atMonza. The Spanish wars of Charlemagne were represented…
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