The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 174
ie eniperors of Gormany, hissuccessors, may not hâve scrupled to appropriate thoso riches, of which somerare spccimous, particularly his diadem and sword, are still preserved in theJluseum ot Vienna (Figs. 87 and 88). Ecclcsiastical display, notably extinct during the period of trouble… … Fig. SS.—Diadem of Charlemagne. Presened in the Impérial Treasury at Vienna. it was calculated that under Léo III., who occapied the pontifical chairfrom 795 to 816, the weight of the plate which the Pope gave, to enriehthe churches, amoimted to not less than 1,075 pounds of gold and 24,744pounds…
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