The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 476
Fig. 323.—Belfry of Brussels (Fifteenth Centurj-), from an engraring of the Seventeenth Century. spontaneously creating of herself any style, Italy, amoDg ail tlie nations of•Europe, was tlie country whicli Lad niost successfully resisted the profound … 4o5 ARCHITECTURE. darkness of barbarism, and the first on wliich tlie light of modem civilisationshone. At the period of this new dawn of genius, Italj^ had only to ransack tteruins its first magnificence had bequeathed it to find among ttem examplesit might foUow ; moreover, it was tte time when…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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