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art of illumination (p. 115):
Painting in this same age was also able to display
its excellence especially in the making of miniatures upon
glass set against a gold-leaf background. A certain Greek
named Bounneris signed one of these (Plate 102a) with
portraits of a mother and two children, and another
similar work, unsigned (Plate 102g), shows an agreeable
male likeness. This is a fine aristocratic art which was to
give rise later to the art of illumination on vellum; and it is
an art contemporary with the philosopher Plotinus, a man
more sensitive to fine art than ever Plato or Aristotle had
been.