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 41
mentioned in the inventories of the ^liddleAges. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, German artisans made torch- i6 FURNITURE. holders, flambeaux, and chandeliers in copper, wrought and embellished withrepresentations of all kinds of natural or fantastic objects; and in those daysthese works… … Fig. 12.—Bed furnished with Canopy and Curtains, from a Miniature at the end of the Fourteenth Century. (MS. de la Bibl. Nat. de Paris.) entertainments and solemn assemblies held in the evening, it became anestablished custom to add to these lamps the Kght of resinous torches, whichserfs held in…
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