The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 429
of the sublime by merely striving after a simple and exactimitation of nature. It was by the same course of action tbat Frenchsculpture always emnlated its Transalpine rival ; but, in order to attain tbesame end, the imitation foUowed a différent path. In Italy, Art raised itselfto the idéal by an… … Fig. 283.—Bas-relief on one of the Bronze Gates of St. Peters at Rome, representing the Coronation of theEmperor Sigismund by Pope Eugène IV., in 1433. (Sculpture of the Fifteenth Centurj.) thought ; she did not introduce into the sanctuary of the Hoh of Holiesany of those profane and material…
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