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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 34

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was commonly long and straight, but on occasions of state it wassemicircular, or like a horse-shoe in form, recalling the Romanesque roundtable of King Artus of Brittany (Fig. 3). FURNITURE. Tlio Crusiulcs, bringing togotlier mou of ail the countries of Europe withllie pcoplo of tlio East, mudo… … Fig 3.—Round Table of K.ing Artus of Brittany, from a Miniature of the Fourteentli Century (ilS. de la Bibl. Imp. de Paris). ground, or stretched eut on carpets in the Oriental fashion, as representedand described in miniatures contained in the manuscripts of that period.The Sire de Joinville, the…

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