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 155
r several centuries. From the Gallo-Roman period Limoges had enjoyed fame for its goldsmiths work. St. Eloi, 110 GOLD AND SILVER WORK. the great goldsmith in the time of the Merovingian kings (Fig. 95), wasoriginally from that country, and he was working under Alban, a goldsmith,and master of the… … Fig. 94.—Chalice, said to be of St. Reray. (Treasury of the Cathedral of Rheims.) production of works of a peculiar character, which are supposed to havebeen fabricated there prior to the third century, if we may judge from apassage in Philostratus, a Greek writer of that period. This work was in a…
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