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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 56

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type ol ^\hich tradition endeavours to trace to so e;irl\- adate. At a later period, and until tlie time when the artists of the Uenais-sancc, being- called ujx)!! to remodel sacred ornaments, transformed them int(jmarvels of art, on wliicli tluy lavished all th(> resources of castin*,^… … Fig. 21.—An Altar Traj* and Chalice in enamelled gold, supposed to be of the Fourth or Fifth Century, foundat Gourdon, near Chalon-sur-Saone, in 1846. (Cabinet des Antiques, Bibl. Nat. de Paris.) All that can be said regarding the chalice applies equally to the mon-strance and the pyx employed to…

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