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 156
in Philostratus, a Greek writer of that period. This work was in a mixed style, inasmuch as the material forming theground of the work is copper; and, moreover, the principal effects are duenot less to the skill of the eiiameller than to the talent of the worker in metal, GOLD AND SILVER WORK. I I… … f8r< 95-—Altar Cross, ascribed to St. EIoL from whom we take this description, word for word, * the artist marks uponits surface all those parts which have to retain their elevation, and to show inthe work when finished, in order to divide one object from another; then with 112 GOLD AND SILVER…
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