The Arts and Crafts of Older Spain: Gold, silver, and jewel work. Iron-work. Bronzes. ArmsT.N. Foulis, 1907 - Decoration and ornament |
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Page 74 - The appearance, instantaneously disclosed, Was of a mighty City — boldly say A wilderness of building, sinking far And self-withdrawn into a wondrous depth, Far sinking into splendour — without end ! Fabric it seemed of diamond and of gold, With alabaster domes, and silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace, high Uplifted...
Page 96 - Fashion'd by Bezaleel, the cunning Jew, Chosen of God to work his sov'ran will, And greatly gifted with celestial skill.
Page 211 - From the evidence it would appear that the submergence took place at the end of the fourteenth or the beginning of the fifteenth century.
Page 89 - Toledo , confirmando la primacia de aquella santa iglesia, imitadas todas por Palomares. Núm. 91 — Libro de diferentes cuentas de entrada y distribucion de rentas Reales y gasto de casa Real en el reinado de D. Sancho IV , era de 1331 y 1332, que son años de 1293 y 1294, sacado de un tomo original en folio , que se guarda en la librería de la santa iglesia de Toledo.
Page 94 - It was a three-storeyed edifice, of a florid classical design, crowned with a dome, and enriched with numberless groups and statues, and an inner shrine of jewelled gold; it contained 616 marks of silver, and cost 17,725^ ducats, a sum which can barely have paid the ingenious artist for the labour of forty-five years.
Page 266 - Blades of Toledo. These blades have long been famous throughout Europe. The steel Is excellent, and so perfectly tempered that in thrusting at a target the swords will bend like whalebone, and yet cut through a helmet without turning their edge. This manufacture was a long time neglected, but was revived in 1786. Virgil says, At Chalybis nudi ferrum, &c. And naked Spaniards temper steel for war. Georg. 1, 58. Diod. Sic. says, the Celtiberians give such temper to their steel that no helmet can resist...
Page 60 - The Retablo is of wood entirely covered with silver plates, and divided vertically into three series of niches and canopies ; each division has a subject, and a good deal of enamelling is introduced in various parts of the canopies and grounds of the panels. Each panel has a cinquefoiled arch with a crocketed gablet and pinnacles on either side. The straight line of the top is broken by three niches, which rise in the centre and at either end. In the centre is the Blessed Virgin with our Lord ; on...
Page 154 - ... tafte; indeed, the fame oil feeds their lamp, fwims in their pottage, and drefles their fallad : in inns the lighted lamp is frequently handed down to the table, that each man may take the quantity he choofes. Much tobacco is ufed by them in fmoking and chewing.
Page 43 - NISI LIBENS UBI VOLUNTAS DEDERIT MEA HOC OPUS PERFECTUM EST IN ERA DCCCXLVI...
Page 82 - No doubt much coin is buried in the Peninsula, since the country has so often been invaded and torn by civil wars, and there never has been much confidence between Spaniard and Spaniard ; accordingly the only sure, although unproductive, investment for those who had money, was the possession of gold or silver, and the only resource to preserve that, was to hide it.