The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 408
inciplesof the ancients were for a long time applied, as if instinctively. Althoughartists no longer studied nature, they were, at ail cvcnts, surrounded bjexcellent models, which guided them with somewhat imjjerious rule. We hâve already seen tliat, among the barbarie chiefs who iiivadedthe empire… … ■ Fig. 273.—Altar of Jupiter Ceraunus (Gallo-Roman Sculpture), discovered in 1711,under the Choir of Notre-Damej Paris. the préservera of the Greek and Roman monuments belonging to thenohlest epoch of Ai-t. The statues were no longer broken down ; theinscriptions and bas-reliefs ceased to be…
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