Illustrated catalogue of the exceedingly rare and valuable art treasures and antiquities formerly contained in the famous Davanzati Palace, Florence, Italy . 715—FlFTEE nth Lentuey Spanish Ivory Crucifix l< q The straight-armed cross is of wood painted in a scrolled designof leaves and (lowers, and the figure of Christ is of ivory, witha loin-cloth knotted around 11 is waist. Height of figure, .50 asZO X oow(ft <W as ITALIAN ARMOR OF THE XVIth CENTURY CAP-A-PIE AND HALF-SUITS, SWORDS, HALBERDSAND EARLY FIREARMS It was in the late .sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries thatth
Illustrated catalogue of the exceedingly rare and valuable art treasures and antiquities formerly contained in the famous Davanzati Palace, Florence, Italy . 715—FlFTEE nth Lentuey Spanish Ivory Crucifix l< q The straight-armed cross is of wood painted in a scrolled designof leaves and (lowers, and the figure of Christ is of ivory, witha loin-cloth knotted around 11 is waist. Height of figure, .50 asZO X oow(ft <W as ITALIAN ARMOR OF THE XVIth CENTURY CAP-A-PIE AND HALF-SUITS, SWORDS, HALBERDSAND EARLY FIREARMS It was in the late .sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries thatthe defensive armor which for so many centuries had made the nameof the Milanese armorers of European reputation found its Yolpi, in the small but interesting collection he has formed,has therefore been well advised to confine himself to the period namedand to refuse to be seduced into the acquisition of those florid suitsand massive helmets which give evidence of so much misdirected crafts-manship. Yet even in these earlier examples there is sufficient deco-rative quality and marks of skilled workmanship to entitle them to aplace on the walls of the most elaborately furnished room. These inlaid and engraved suits, these processional halberds andparti/ans. even these quaintly appearing crossbows and firearms, areof precisely the same nature as those for which the late Sir RichardWallace
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