The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 196
ifts and offerings of jewellery to the churches. Forinstance, it was then that Bonnard, Parisian goldsmith, assisted by theablest artisans, devoted two years to the manufacture of the shrine of GOLD AND SILVER WORK. i35 St. Genevieve, on which he expended one hundred and ninety-three marksof silver… … was deposited in the French mint in 1793 ; but the spoil realised only twenty-three thousand eight hundred and thirty livres. Half a century earlier, themost celebrated German goldsmiths were engaged during seventeen yearsupon the famous reliquary in silver gilt, called the Great Relics, which…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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