An outline history of painting for young people and students (1883)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, White, Stokes, & Allen · leaf 63
, this manuscript datesfrom the beginning of the sixth century. This picture fromit represents Dioskorides dressed in white robes and seatedin a chair of gold ; before him stands a woman in a goldtunic and scarlet mantle, who represents the genius of dis-covery ; she presents the legendary mandrake… … 1 iG. 20.—The DiscuvtRY uf the Herb Mandkagora. Fro/n a MH. of Dt koridcs, at Vien/ia. hand, and is curious and interesting ; the plants, snakes,birds, and insects must have been painted from nature, andthe whole is most skilfully done. MINIATURE. 49 During the Middle Ages tlie arts as practised in…
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