lliturgical missals in which the brightness of stainedglass had been the ideal. How far this more thannatural brilliance of colour served the true ends ofsuch matter-of-fact jjortraiture as that practised bythe successors of Petitot is a question. Tlic artof the miniature as we have it with Petitot… … JOHN EVELYN (162O-I70O)HY A CONTEMPORARY ARTIST because it was deliglitful : its subject next engagedhis thouglit, and thought aroused sentiments—here
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