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 191
red the most skilful goldsmith of his time (Figs. 101 and102). However that may he, the style of the goldsmiths art of the fifteenthcentury continued, as in the two or three preceding centuries, conformableto the contemporaneous style of architecture. For instance, the shrine… … Fig. ioi.—The Ensign of the Collar of the Goldsmiths of Ghent. (FifteenthCentury.) influence was making itself felt that was not long in entirely modifying thegeneral aspect of the productions of the trade we are considering. Thattransformation must have been promoted by Italy ; in the midst of…
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