Manners, customs, and dress during the Middle Ages, and during the Renaissance period
By: Illustrated with fifteen chromolithographic prints by F. Kellerhoven and upwards of four hundred engravings on wood.
Publisher: D. Appleton
Published: 1874
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 554
Subjects: Middle Ages.; Renaissance.; Manners and customs.
Description: Art must be the faithful expression of a society, since it represents it by its works as it has created them -- undeniable witnesses of its spirit and manners for future generations. But it must be acknowledged that art is only the consequence of the ideas which it expresses; it is the fruit of civilization, not its origin. To understand the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, it is necessary to go back to the source of its art, and to know the life of our fathers; these are two inseparable things, which entwine one another, and become complete one by the other. - Preface.