Reber, Franz von, 1834-1919, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 475
t period into theChurch of Bjeresjo in Sweden, are rendered the more hideous andcorpse-like by their closed eyes. Compared with that of CentralEurope, the production of illuminated manuscripts was inconsidera-ble in these countries, and their carvings distinctly show how im-portant a feature of… … Fig. 269.—Sculptured Portal of Vezelay in Burgundy. SCULPTURE OF THE ROMANIC EPOCH. DURING the Early Christian, Byzantine, and Carolingian pe-riods sculpture occupied but an inferior position among thearts, and even in the first ages of the Romanic epoch but few andunimportant tasks were assigned…
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