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 180
Figs. 126 to 131.—Chain? baptism of her son in 1606, the robe being covered with thirty-two thou.sandprecious stones and three thousand diamonds, the goldsmith had only tomount the stones and furnish the design for fixing them on the gold orsilk tissue. … Figs. 132 to 136.—Rings. Long before Benvenuto and other skilful Italian goldsmiths weresummoned by Francis I. to his court, the French goldsmiths had provedthat they needed only a little encouragement to range themselves on a levelwith foreign artists. But that patronage having failed them, they…
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