Legends of the Madonna, as represented in the fine artsForming the third series of Sacred and legendary art . >. lincoronata. 27 happily lost; the tapestry is missing from the Vatican collec-tion ; two old engravings, however, exist, from which some Passavantsidea may be formed of the original group. 208. 3. It will be interesting to remember that the earliest exist-ing impression taken from an engraved metal plate, is a Coro-nation of the Virgin. Maso Finiguerra, a skilful goldsmithand worker in niello, living at Florence in 1434, was employedto execute a pix (the small casket in which the
Legends of the Madonna, as represented in the fine artsForming the third series of Sacred and legendary art . >. lincoronata. 27 happily lost; the tapestry is missing from the Vatican collec-tion ; two old engravings, however, exist, from which some Passavantsidea may be formed of the original group. 208. 3. It will be interesting to remember that the earliest exist-ing impression taken from an engraved metal plate, is a Coro-nation of the Virgin. Maso Finiguerra, a skilful goldsmithand worker in niello, living at Florence in 1434, was employedto execute a pix (the small casket in which the consecratedwafer of the sacrament is deposited), and he decorated it witha representation of the Coronation in presence of saints andangels, in all about thirty figures, minutely and exquisitelyengraved on the silver face. Whether Finiguerra was thefirst worker in niello to whom it occurred to fill up the linescut in the silver with a black fluid, and then by laying on ita piece of damp paper, and forcibly rubbing it, take off thefacsimile of his design and try its effect before the finalprocess,—this we ca
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