The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages: Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries |
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Page 71
... Pope Paschal , early in the ninth century , had some magnificent garments wrought , which he pre- sented to different churches . One of these was an altar - cloth of Tyrian purple , having in the middle a picture of golden emblems ...
... Pope Paschal , early in the ninth century , had some magnificent garments wrought , which he pre- sented to different churches . One of these was an altar - cloth of Tyrian purple , having in the middle a picture of golden emblems ...
Page 72
... Pope Paschal had a robe worked with gold and gems , having the history of the Virgins with lighted torches beautifully related : he had another of Byzantine scarlet with a worked border of olive- leaves . This was a very usual ...
... Pope Paschal had a robe worked with gold and gems , having the history of the Virgins with lighted torches beautifully related : he had another of Byzantine scarlet with a worked border of olive- leaves . This was a very usual ...
Page 73
... Pope Leo the Fourth had a hanging worked with the needle , having the portrait of a man seated upon a peacock . Pope Stefano the Fifth had four magni- ficent hangings for the great altar , one of which was wrought in peacocks . We find ...
... Pope Leo the Fourth had a hanging worked with the needle , having the portrait of a man seated upon a peacock . Pope Stefano the Fifth had four magni- ficent hangings for the great altar , one of which was wrought in peacocks . We find ...
Page 75
... Pope Paul the Third sent King Pepin a present of a mantle interwoven with peacocks ' feathers . And from whatever circumstance the reverence for peacocks ' feathers originated , † it is not , even yet , * " Opere plumario exquitissime ...
... Pope Paul the Third sent King Pepin a present of a mantle interwoven with peacocks ' feathers . And from whatever circumstance the reverence for peacocks ' feathers originated , † it is not , even yet , * " Opere plumario exquitissime ...
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... Pope , was a magnificent cope , embroidered and studded with large white pearls , and purchased of the executors of Catherine Lincoln , for a sum equivalent to be- tween two and three thousand pounds of present money . Another cope ...
... Pope , was a magnificent cope , embroidered and studded with large white pearls , and purchased of the executors of Catherine Lincoln , for a sum equivalent to be- tween two and three thousand pounds of present money . Another cope ...
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