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The Arts in the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance

Note 29 — GLASS-PAINTING.

James Dafforne translation

Amandaire—almond-shaped. Strictly speaking, the aureola is the nimbus of the whole body, as the nimbus is the aureola of the head. In Fairholt’s “Dictionary of Terms in Art” is an engraving showing a saint standing in the centre of an almond-shaped aureola—[Ed.]

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