The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 169
extravagance of the Empress Eudoxia, this eloquent Fatherof the Church expiated in exile and persecutions his ardent zeal and hissincerity. The brilliant specimens of the gold-work of the Visigoths, which, in 1858,were exhumed in the field of Guarrazar, near Toledo, and which have beenobtained for… … Fig. 85.—Gallic Bracelet, from a Cabinet of Antiquities. (Imp. Library, Paris.) arts, to Byzantine influence. The most remarkable, not only in its dimen-sions and extreme richness, but in the peculiarity of its ornaments, is avotive crown, intended to be hung, according to the custom of thosetimes,…
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