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History of mediaeval art (1887)

Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 472

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16070,{Fig. 266.) y/y> About the middle of the twelfth century an essential changetook place in French illumination in regard to beauty of color, thedecorative effect being heightened and the way prepared for the im-provement in miniature painting which obtained during the Gothicperiod. This… … Fig. 266.—St. Benedict giving the Rules of his Order to the Brothers. Miniature froma Codex of Southern France, now in the British Museum. of painted windows, the more were the artists in other branches in-duced to give up the dull olive tones of the Byzantines, as well asthe glaring and…

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