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The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)

Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 187

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Fig-. 86.—Votive Crown of Suintila, King of theVisigoths from 621 to 631. (Armoury Real,Madrid.) I 26 GOLD AND SILVER WORK. enduring influence he exercised over a whole historical period of art. Finally,we have observed that Charlemagne—whose object seems to have been notonly to imitate… … Fig. 87.—The Sword ot Charlemagne. Preserved in the Imperial Treasury at Vienna. According to a tradition, the loss of most of the beautiful objects ofgold-work belonging to that monarch may have been owing to the circum-stance that they were disposed around him in the sepulchral chamber where GOLD…

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