The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 236
a great number of aUegorical figures—the work of Bouhain, HOROr.OGV. «3 in 1570. A mucli more famous clock was that of Strasburg (Fig. 152),coiistructcd in 1573, and wliicli was long considered to be tlie greatest ofail \\onders. It was entirely restored in 1842 by M. Schwilgué. AngeloEooca, in bis… … Fig. 151.— Clock of Jena, in Gerraany. (Fifteenth Centun^) three hundred and sixty-tive days. On two sides of tbe dial and below itthe principal festivals of the year and the soleninities of the Church wererepresented by allegorical figures. Other dials, distributed symmetricallyon the façade of…
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