The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 108
e certain iigures from nature, following ber so closely,even to tbe small bair in tbe beard and eyebrows, as to make tbem tbenatural size. Tbese peculiarities are to be seen in tbe fragments of tbemoulds wbicb bave been discovered. In tbe same page Palissy says, Alsotbere would be anotber, composed… … Fig. 38.—Omamentation on Pottery by Bernard Palissy. body. Tbis was found in fragments, as also a band moulded from nature,and bolding a sword of ancient make (Fig. 39). Among tbe fragmentsmoulded from tbe naked and tbe draped form, is tbe one wbicb we give(Fig. 40) ; it is tbus described by…
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