Искусства и ремесла Средневековья

Other Metals

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In 1562 Bartolomeo Morel, who made the celebrated statue of the Giralda То\vег inSeville, executed а fifteen b1·anched candelabrum for tlie Cathedral. It is а rich Renaissance design, in remarkaЬly chaste and good lines, апd holds fifteen statuettes, which are displaced to make room for the candles only during the last few days of Lent. А cнrious form of medireval trinket was the perfume ball; this consisted of а perforated ball of соррег or brass, often ornamented with daшascene, апd intended to contain incense to perfume the air, the balls beiпg suspended. The earliest metal statuary in England was rendered iп latten, а mixed metal of а yellow colour, the exact recipe for \Vhich has not survivcd. The recщnbent effigies of Henry III. and Queen Eleaпor are шаdе of latten, and the tomb of the Black Prince in Canterbш-y is the sаше, beautifully chased. Many of these and other tombs were рrоЬаЫу originally covered with gildiвg, painting, and enamel. The effigies of Richard II. and his queen, Anne of Bohemia, were made dшing the reign of the monarch; а contemporary document states that "Sir John Inno­ cent paid another part of а certain iпdenture made between the King and Nicolas Broker and Geoff1·ey Prest, coppersшiths of London, for the making of two images, likenesses of the King and Queeп, of copper and latten, gilded upon the said marЫe tomb." There are many examples of bronze gates in ecclesi-