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History of mediaeval art (1887)

Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 475

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Eng-lish notes, probably refera-ble to the time of Edwardthe Confessor, A. D. 1041 to 1066, now in the British Museum (Cott.MS. Tib. C. 6). After the Norman conquest there was no suchsteady improvement in the painting as in the architecture of Eng-land. The illuminations of the French were by no… … Fig. 268.—King Edgar between the Virgin and St.Peter. Miniature from the Codex of Edgar, inthe British Museum. SCANDINAVIA. 439 at this time inferior to those which it had produced a century be-fore,—this being, without doubt, due to the devotion of all energiesto architectural constructions.…

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