The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 518
een able to disengage himseK from the Pagan creeds inillustratuig Biblical épisodes. Two celebrated manu-scripts of the same time, but executed in France, andpreserved in the same collection, show, by the stiffnessand incorrectness of the drawing, that the impetusgiven by the genius of Charlemagne… … 3 M 450 MINIATURES IN MANUSCRIPTS. ^ 1 J^ .ts #*. were also very inferior, to judge from a LatinBook of the Gospels of the tentli century paintedin England (Fig. 356) ; it, however, provesthat the art of ornamenting books liad degene-rated less tliau that of dra\ying the human
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