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History of mediaeval art (1887)

Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 720

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ny did not attain to a m<sive employment, and to a higher artistic importance, until aparatively late period. Even after the superfrontalta had b<of greater prominence than the chalice shrines andreliquaries, the ornaments of the altar were commonly SCuIpfpainted altar-pieces being rare in… … Fig. 414.—Early Cologne Triptych. Museum of Cologne. the Richartz-Wallraf Museum of that city {Fig. 414). Although inthe positions and draperies some concessions were made to theideals of the Gothic style, they followed in the main Byzantine andRomanic types. Cyclical representations do not appear…

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