We are not therefore surprised to find — and this must ever be borne in mind — that the science of architecture and the sister arts of illuminating, metal working, wood carving , embroidery, and perhaps we may add fresco painting, passed on hand in hand through a nearly parallel course of development through the middle ages, all culminating together, as far as chasteness of design and elegance of execution were concerned, in the 13th and 14th centuries, and as far as profuseness and richness of ornamentation were concerned, in the 15th; and all together sinking out of sight during the Reformation. And the reason why, in obtain- ing a general view of the progress of one — as illumination — it is wise to keep the others in mind, is, that each serves, and especially architecture as a sort of memoria technica to the rest. — Delamotte's Primer of Illumination (1860)

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