Half-hour lectures on the history and practice of the fine and ornamental arts (1861)
Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890 · London : Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts · leaf 82
e most notablepieces of the Greek method are the crown of Charlemagneand his sword, still preserved in the Imperial Treasury inVienna, and still part of the state adornments of theemperor. The shrine of the Magi at Cologne, in whichthe skulls of the so-called Three Kings are shown, is amuch more… … iWB TZ\lJ^ Ring of Ethelwulf, father of King Alfred. earliest of these is the ring of King Alfreds father Ethel--vvulf, done in the true Western manner of hoUowed-outenamel, and presenting no Byzantine ornament, wliile the 66 HALF-HOUR LECTURES. Runic knot and grotesques appear upon it. Another…
Art · Decoration and ornament · Fore-edge painting
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