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 204
pper in the most elegant forms were decorated with their richand brilliant paintings. In the highest rank of artists who have rendered this attractive workillustrious we must place Leonard (Limousin), painter to Francis I., whowas the first director of the royal manufacture of enamels founded… … Figs. 107 and 108.—Faces of an Hexagonal Enamelled Salt-cellar, representing the Labours of Hercules.Executed at Limoges, for Francis I., by Pierre Raymond. With the remark that, at the end of the sixteenth century, Venice,doubtless imitating Limoges, also manufactured pieces of plate in…
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