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 182
fts and offerings of jewellery to the churches. Forinstance, it was then that Bonnard, Parisian goldsmith, assisted by theablest artisans, devoted two years to the manufacture of the shrine of GOLD AND SILVER WORK. 135 St. Geneviève, on which he expended one hundred and ninety-three marksof silver… … Fig. 94.—Chalice, said to be of St. Remy. (Treasury of the Cathedral of Rheims.) was deposited in the French mint in 1793 ; but the spoil realised only twenty-three thousand eight hundred and thirty livres. Half a century earlier, themost celebrated German goldsmiths were engaged during seventeen…
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