Monastic Seals of the a Century: A Series of Examples, Illustrating the Nature of Their Design and Artistic Value, Selected, Introduced (Classic Reprint)
Monastic Seals of the a Century: A Series of Examples, Illustrating the Nature of Their Design and Artistic Value, Selected, Introduced (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Monastic Seals of the a Century: A Series of Examples, Illustrating the Nature of Their Design and Artistic Value, Selected, Introduced Of stone distribution thus distinguished, which with the Crusades con stituted the greatest idylls of the Middle Ages, it expanded under its graceful influence, and participated relatively in its ambition and glory. Its subsequent and comparative history yields a grievous contrast. Generally speaking the records of the various arts in conception, craft, style, expression ...
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Excerpt from Monastic Seals of the a Century: A Series of Examples, Illustrating the Nature of Their Design and Artistic Value, Selected, Introduced Of stone distribution thus distinguished, which with the Crusades con stituted the greatest idylls of the Middle Ages, it expanded under its graceful influence, and participated relatively in its ambition and glory. Its subsequent and comparative history yields a grievous contrast. Generally speaking the records of the various arts in conception, craft, style, expression, and all that makes and marks true Art shew, save for epochal depressions and retrogressions always remedied and counteracted, an evolutionary excellence with its final maintenance and future promise. Seal Art failing to recover from its first retrograde movement, marked as was the decline of Roman Art under the Emperors by an exuber ance of tawdry ornament, pursued it to its nadir. Imbued' with the soul which dominated architectural style, with the European spirit of the time, and advancing with it to manifest its essence it declined in sympathetic unison. When it came under the succeeding influence, the Renaissance - which affected contrarily the classic Art of gem engraving, - to emphasise the source which gave it life its state was wrought to a debasement far more ignoble than that in which the decline of the Gothic spirit reduced it. Bringing life to Art generally, to this branch the revival practically brought extinction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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