European enamels . MEDIEVAL ENAMELS It is a not uncommon arrangement for theseapostles and prophets to be put in correspondingwindows in churches. At Chartres this is carriedso far that the apostles are actually representedseated on the shoulders of the prophets, the appro-priate quotations being made to proceed out of themouths of each. After the outbreak of the French Revolution theshrine at Cologne was taken to pieces and removedto Frankfort, being much damaged in the putting it together again, parts of it were paintedover, and it was shortened by a whole panel. In1820 a robber s
European enamels . MEDIEVAL ENAMELS It is a not uncommon arrangement for theseapostles and prophets to be put in correspondingwindows in churches. At Chartres this is carriedso far that the apostles are actually representedseated on the shoulders of the prophets, the appro-priate quotations being made to proceed out of themouths of each. After the outbreak of the French Revolution theshrine at Cologne was taken to pieces and removedto Frankfort, being much damaged in the putting it together again, parts of it were paintedover, and it was shortened by a whole panel. In1820 a robber stole parts of it, which were afterwardsfound in a field. The shrine bears the mark of frequent restora-tions, but the major part of it is undoubtedly finethirteenth-century work. There are many largejewels in it, almost all being rough are also some fine antique cameos representingstatues of Victory and other subjects. There is a very interesting reliquary at Siegburg,near Cologne, where once a Bene
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