The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 121
n polished steel. For the same reasonblack armour was tried, but tlie engravings and cha.sings, the gildings anddamaskeenings were more effective on the greenish ground; consequentlyblack varnish, was given up in favour of bronze. At the end of the 76 AI^MS AND ARMOUR. sixteeutli century, and… … Fig. 6i.—Damaskeened Armour of the end of the Sixteenth Century. (Portrait of Francois, Due dAlen^on, from Montfaucons La Monarchic Fran^oise.) with that of the period (Fig. 61). However, the decline of the use of armour,which became in a measure inevitable, was at hand. De la Noue, an eminent…
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