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 36
with the richest stuffs, inlaid with precious stones, andengraved with the armorial bearings of great houses, issued for the mostpart from the workshops of Parisian artisans. Those artisans, carpenters,manufacturers of coffers and carved chests, and furniture-makers, were socelebrated for works of… … Fig. 4.—Louis IX. represented in his Regal Chair, tapestried in fleurs-de-lis, from a Miniatureof the Fourteenth Century. (MS. de la Bibl. Imp. de Paris.), The following extract, from an invoice of Etienne La Fontaine, the royalsilversmith, affords, in terms which require no comment, an idea of the…
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