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The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)

Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 33

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in the interior of the buildings, where they were used, the archi-tectural style of contemporary monuments. They were large and massive,and were raised on clusters of columns expanding at the back in three semi-circular rows. The anonymous monk of Saint-GaU, in his chronicle writtenin the ninth… … Fig. 2.—Chair of the Ninth or Tenth Century, taken from a Miniature of that period (MS. de la Bibl.Imp. de Paris). of Louis le Gros, in the beginning of the twelfth century—^the guests wereseated, at ordinary family repasts, on simple stools ; but if the party wasmore of a ceremonious than intimate…

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