. The Catholic encyclopedia; an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic Church . f varioussizes. England was the largest consumer, and inspite of the rapacious plunderers of the Reformation,Puritanic vio-lence, and neg-lect, betweenthree and fourthousand brass-es of the thir-teenth, four-teenth, fif-teenth, andsixteenth cen-turies have sur-la^ 1^^ vived. The ^Jh ISi^t ^^^^SI^H persons c o m-^^M I^HL -^t^I^B memorated J^B L^IBfi ^%^^B were as a rule^|H i . ^- ^ ^^ represented upon the plates, . t ,-; .iciiN i ) usually li
. The Catholic encyclopedia; an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic Church . f varioussizes. England was the largest consumer, and inspite of the rapacious plunderers of the Reformation,Puritanic vio-lence, and neg-lect, betweenthree and fourthousand brass-es of the thir-teenth, four-teenth, fif-teenth, andsixteenth cen-turies have sur-la^ 1^^ vived. The ^Jh ISi^t ^^^^SI^H persons c o m-^^M I^HL -^t^I^B memorated J^B L^IBfi ^%^^B were as a rule^|H i . ^- ^ ^^ represented upon the plates, . t ,-; .iciiN i ) usually ui- ii. A;. uiuM, Paula size, by deeply incised lineswith very little attempt at shading, surroundedby architectural and heraldic accessories and in-scriptions. In some cases the incisions were em-phasized by black and red enamels, while in othersthe brasses were further embellished by the intro-duction of many-coloured Limoges enamels. Thesememorials attained their greatest artistic excellencyin the fourteenth century, and then slowly deterio-rated, becoming very much debased during the reignsof Elizabeth and aim i^ Ji» i^>4-. UMip {• J fWUt <-^M(^ W<g James I, reach-ing their lowesttype in the eigh-teenth century,when they ceasedto be employed,until the Gothicrevival broughtthem again intouse. A great dealof time has beengiven by archso-logical investiga-tors to the studyof , and manyfinely illustratedworks on the sub-ject have beenpublished; almostevery county inEngland has oneor more booksupon those with-in its Manu-al of MonumentalBrasses, with its200 illustrations,is invaluable tothe student; whilethe magnificentfolio volume ofcoloured platesissued in 1864by J. O. and B. Waller covers the ground of English brasses,and that of W. F. Greeny (London, 1884), fully de-scribes those on the Continent. Military brassescan be studied in the transactions of the York-shire Architectural Society for 1885, and a history ofthe d
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