French Art From 1350 to 1850 (The Book of Art)
French Art From 1350 to 1850 (The Book of Art)
Grolier Incorporated | 1965 | ISBN: N/A | English | 252 pages | PDF | 30 MB
After the mural paintings of the Romanesque period, and the stained-glass windows of the great Gothic cathedrals, the first notable expression of French pictorial art appeared in the small, exquisite, decorative paintings of the manuscript illuminators. A regular school of miniaturists grew up in Paris during the 13th century, and the influence of these often unknown painters, with their stylized Gothic vision of art, spread through all Europe north of the Alps…