. Glass. ethods in Poitou and in the south, but a few words maybe said of the glass-houses established at Nevers inthe sixteenth century. At that time the dukedom of theNivernais was held by the Gonzaga family of Mantua,who had already acquired the marquisate of Montferrat,upon which the town of LAltare was dependent. Louisof Gonzaga, who died in 1595, was as a patron of the artsquite abreast of his time, and we may note that besideshis possessions in France and Italy he held much land inFlanders and the Lidge country, and that he was marriedto a princess of the house of Cleves. The old town o
. Glass. ethods in Poitou and in the south, but a few words maybe said of the glass-houses established at Nevers inthe sixteenth century. At that time the dukedom of theNivernais was held by the Gonzaga family of Mantua,who had already acquired the marquisate of Montferrat,upon which the town of LAltare was dependent. Louisof Gonzaga, who died in 1595, was as a patron of the artsquite abreast of his time, and we may note that besideshis possessions in France and Italy he held much land inFlanders and the Lidge country, and that he was marriedto a princess of the house of Cleves. The old town ofNevers became for a time an artistic centre of someimportance. In the handsome renaissance palace built inpart by this said Louis (his arms are to be seen carvedin bold relief on the walls), there is now gathered to-gether an important collection of the enamelled fayencefor which the town is famous, and also a few examplesof the local glass, but none of this last is, I think, of so232 g^-^.\ »^: -<#^.
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