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Title: The industrial arts in Spain
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Riaño, Juan F. (Juan Facundo), 1829-1901
Subjects: Decorative arts Pottery
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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d a fine design of leaves andflowers. In one of the inscriptions may be read: ^JoannesBaptista Cehia, Aragoiientis patria pingendi artifex salutis anno1563. CompostdlcR faciebatr The other artist was Cela, theauthor of the fine reja del coro of the church of the Pilar atSaragossa, dated 1574-79. Two gilt metal Monstrances of Spanish work of the i6thcentury are in the South Kensington Museum. No. 4310, 57,represents an architectural shrine, decorated with strap andcartouche-work, columns, and arcades in the renaissance style ;it is dated 1537. See woodcut on next page. The other. No*190, 66, has an ornamented stem, with knob, on which stands atriangular shrine with kneeling angels j above is a smaller shrinesurmounted by a crucifix. Objects of bronze work of the 17th century which are notby Fanelli, Tacca, or other foreigners, are less numerous; most ofthem show signs of the decline of art at this period. Thechiselled and openworked altar frontal, at the burial-place of the BRONZES. 77
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SPANISH MONSTRANCE, DATED 1537. SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM. kings of Spain at the Escorial, is a very fine work of its kind.The shrine of the Sagrario de la Santa Forma, also at the 78 SPANISH INDUSTRIAL ART. Escorial, is an excellent piece of workmanship—both these objectswere made by lay brothers of the convent. Friar Eugenio de laCruz and Friar Juan de la Concepcion, silversmiths, ^vorkedduring the reign of Philip IV. at chiselling these and otherobjects of bronze. The exaggerations and bad taste, which were so common inevery branch of artistic industiy, were as prominent in bronzes—the bas-reliefs of this metal which ornament the back of the highaltar of the cathedral of Toledo, at the Transparente, aregenerally mentioned as models of bad taste. They are byNarciso Thome \ the architecture, painting, statues and carvings inmarble, jasper and bronze are by the same person, as appears inthe inscription which he placed there at its termination in 1734. On the accession of King Charle

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