The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 38
Fig. 5.—Seats from Miniatures of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. FURNITURE. 9 and even reliquaries. In palaces and mansions, the dressers were of gold,silver, or copper gilt; as were previously the tables. Persons of inferior rankhad only wooden tables, but they were scrupulous in covering… … Fig 6. — Christine de Pizan, contemporary with Charles V. and Charles VI., seated on a Chair in carved woodwith back and canopy, and tapestry of worsted or figured silk. The box or chest which formed the writing-table contained books. (Miniature from a MS. in the Bibl. of Burgundy -Bruxelles,…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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