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 165
red faithfullyall his life to his first profession, and considered itnot derogatory even to manufacture jewellery.Thus, for example, in 1428 he mounted as a sig-net for Giovanni de Medicis, a cornelian said tohave belonged to the treasury of Nero, and he setit as a winged dragon emerging from a… … Fig. 103.—Shrine of the Fifteenth Centurj-. (Collection of Prince Soltykoff.) senting Christ surrounded by numerous cherubs, and at the back the Yirginin the midst of the four Evangelists. During the forty years employed in the execution of the doors of the GOLD AM) SILVER WORK I 2 I Baptistery,…
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