Embroidery : a collection of articles on subjects connected with the study of fine needlework, including stitches, materials, methods of work, and designing, and history ... (1909)
Christie, Grace · London, James Pearsall · leaf 230
firstcathedral, the Cope of the Passion and thatof the Virgin. These are without doubtmost beautiful specimens of opus Anglicum.In the same way Pius II left a superb cope initiative taken by the Pope and the car-dinals favoured the diffusion of Englishembroideries. They owed their… … to the cathedral of Pienza. What can besaid of the cope of the Cardinal Albornoz atToledo ? It is perhaps the most remark-able of them all. The Cardinal NicolasCappuci, who died July 26th, 1368, be-queathed to the Cathedral of Valence, ofwhich he was the head, a cope of Englishwork with divers…
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