A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 177
mporary artists to work inthe same manner. The most famous collectors and patrons werePope Paul II, Lorenzo the Magnificent (1462-1492), for whomGiovanni delle Corniole (John of the carnelians) worked, andPiero de Medici, his son. The gems of his collection were markedso that they can still be… … Fig. 109.—Reliefs in pearl-shell, sixteenth century. great part from contemporary paintings and engravings, thoughin part they were inspired by the antique. But in the lattercase they were never mere copyists, and infused into their worka naive and original spirit which as a rule renders their…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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