. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . after her death, and the date is valuable because a trustworthyarchaojogist, who had seen the now destroyed frescoes inSt. Stephens Chapel, declared that these were by the samehand. The receipt for £20 to Master Peter Sacrist for paintingthis canopy, dated 1!) Richard II. (139(i), is extant, but its terms [ The designer of the famous gutes at Florence.] 14851 ARCHITECTURE ANT) ART. 5o: suggest that it was a
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . after her death, and the date is valuable because a trustworthyarchaojogist, who had seen the now destroyed frescoes inSt. Stephens Chapel, declared that these were by the samehand. The receipt for £20 to Master Peter Sacrist for paintingthis canopy, dated 1!) Richard II. (139(i), is extant, but its terms [ The designer of the famous gutes at Florence.] 14851 ARCHITECTURE ANT) ART. 5o: suggest that it was a paynicnt for work generally, and that hewas the luiddleuiun, in the transaction, so that, althovigh thedate is fixed, we have no clue either to the name, the nationality,or the position of the artist. The use of raised surfaces, the insertion of imitation jewels,and actual gilding or silvering in various metals, were certainly. lliESCuLS AT ; till UCIl, (l\u\. practised in Enufland, and a certain kind of work, thouuh •^ ,. ,.^ , . English probably it belonged rather to the embroiderers than the Art. painters art, was at that date essentially national. This was the manufacture of transparent paintings on cloth for church banners and similar purposes. It was a water-colour process, and we have conclusive evidence that it was employed on a scale suthcient to attract the attention of foreiofn students. An 502 THE CLO^E OP THE MIDDLE AGES. [1399 Italian artist working in Boloqiia, in l-llO, mentions copies,made liy his -ortler, of recipes lent to him liy a resident ofPavia, one Theodoric of Flanders, who had obtained themin London from the artists who worked in them there. Specialmention is made in this ciu-ions passage of historical tignresand other snbjects; bnt as to their artistic cpialities the silent. How far there was anything like a school of Englishart, in the time which corresponds wi
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