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 313
actised in Egypt, Greece, and Rome, and the masks of deadancestors which the Roman patrician kept in his house were ofthis material. The art was in fact for many centuries concernedwith the production of effigies of the dead, intended to be carriedin their funeral processions. This custom was in… … Fig. 189.—Wax portrait, German,sixteenth century. Fig. 190.—Wax portrait, German,(Nuremberg), 1596. survived, is recorded to have been made of wax. Effigies weremade of the French kings, the last so represented being Henri IV.In our own country the last king on whose bier an effigy wascarried was…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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