Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 188
. Theinfluence of the Byzantine school of metal workers spread,not only over the continent of Europe, but as far as Eng-land and Ireland; and many portable altars, shrines,and reliquaries were made to order in Constantinople, orgiven as presents to foreign churches. During the seventh, eighth, and… … Fig. 133.—Base of Candlestick, Milan Cuthedral. (P.) There is still preserved in the Cathedral at Monza the lyo HISTORIC ORNAMENT. Iron Crown of the Lombard kings. It was given to thecathedral by Theodolinda the Lombard Queen in 6i6.The Iron Crown is so called from its having a thin bandof iron…
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