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 146
ccessors, may not haACscrupled to appropriate them, some rarespecimens, particularly his diadem and Fig. 86.—Votive Crown ot Suintiia, King of the , , . .,, ^ 1 • 1 -»r Visigoths from 621 to 631. (Royal Armoury, sword, being stiil preserved m the Jiu- Madrid.)seum of Vienna (Figs. 87 and 88).… … 102 GOLD AND SILVER WORK. manifested itself in an extraordinary degree from that time. For example,it was calculated that under Leo III., who occupied the pontifical chairfrom 795 to 816, the weight of plate given by the Pope to enrich thechurches amounted to no less than 1,075 pounds of gold and…
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