The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 513
444 MINIATURES IN MANUSCRIPTS. Another Yirgil, of the date of about a century later, and which, beforeits présentation to the Pope, was one of the most beautiful ornamentsof tbe ancient library of the Abbey of St. Denis, in France, containspaintings not less rcmarkable in respect of colour, biit… … Fig. 348.—Miniature taken from the Virgil in the Librarj of the Vatican, Rome.(Third or Fourth Centurj.) incomparable examples are sufficient in tbemselves to show the state ofthe painting of manuscripts at the beginning of the Middle Ages. The sixth and seventh centuries hâve left us no books with…
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