A Guide to the mediaeval room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room; (1907)
British Museum. Department 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 251
209 METAL-WORK be specially mentioned. The wealth drawn from the Spanish colonies in the New World introduced a preference for a profuse and sumptuous style, leading to the destruction of early work as no longer suited to the popular taste ; while at the period of the French occupation great… … of the most ornate character Fig. 156. — Bronze relief, Anne of and of Gothic architectural Brittany. (See p. 9.) design, covered with pinnacles, arches, columns, statuettes and reliefs. Fine examples made by the famous silversmith Enrique Arfe in the first quarter of the sixteenth century are…
Art objects · Art, Medieval
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