Examples of the works of art in the Museum and of the decorations of the building, with brief descriptions . ^ M% SKM (9 a). aim VER -IfhLiAl About 1570 , <h. in-fs,KM.) (mo. , J,EMMS,FECIT. KNOCKER. BRONZE. No. 588—1853. THIS is one of a pair of knockers which were formerly on the largedoors of the palazzo Martinengo-dobblo at Brescia; and the com-panion knocker was still hanging there within the last few years. It isprobably Venetian work, of about the middle of the sixteenth century. Venice seems to have relied until the fifteenth century for whateverbronze work she m
Examples of the works of art in the Museum and of the decorations of the building, with brief descriptions . ^ M% SKM (9 a). aim VER -IfhLiAl About 1570 , <h. in-fs,KM.) (mo. , J,EMMS,FECIT. KNOCKER. BRONZE. No. 588—1853. THIS is one of a pair of knockers which were formerly on the largedoors of the palazzo Martinengo-dobblo at Brescia; and the com-panion knocker was still hanging there within the last few years. It isprobably Venetian work, of about the middle of the sixteenth century. Venice seems to have relied until the fifteenth century for whateverbronze work she might require upon the supply which she was able toprocure through her intercourse with Constantinople. Even in instanceswhich may be found where the artists employed worked at home, verystrong Byzantine feeling and marked style are to be traced ; as, for example,in one of the doors of St. Marks, made as early as the twelfth later on, the influence of the schools of Squarcione and Mantegnamade itself felt; and still more powerfully the inspiration which spread allover the north of Italy from the studio of
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