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 174
and the emperors of Germany, hisuccessors, may not have scrupled to appropriate those riches, of which somtrare specimens, particularly his diadem and sword, are still preserved in th;Museum of Vienna (Figs. 87 and 88). Ecclesiastical display, notably extinct during the period of trouble… … Fig. 88.—Diadem of Charlemagne. Preserved in the Imperial Treasury at Vienna. it was calculated that under Leo III., who occupied the pontifical chairfrom 795 to 816, the weight of the plate which the Pope gave to enrichthe churches, amounted to not less than 1,075 pounds of gold and 24,744pounds…
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