Christian Iconography, or the History of Christian Art in the Middle Ages e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. If, then, we take a mean number between the largest and smallest amounts, and multiply that number by the of religious edifices known to have existed in France, whether before the fanatical devastation of the sixteenth, or the poli-i tical destruction of the eighteenth century, we shall be able to judge of the vast importance that had been given by Christianity to the imitative arts.