Capitolo 78
separately, one in every cloison: the Greek in this period never
tried to mix colours, and more than a shade it never appears in
a compartment. Widening him and to improve of the gold Pam they were
continued by Greek artists to Venice in 1105. It was twice
altered later this, once in the fourteenth century for Giving him/it,
and so the Byzantine and pure type is invaded rather from the Gothic one
spirit. The restorations in 1345 were presided above by Gianmaria
Boninsegna.
One of the most famous champions of job of enamel are on the Crown of
Charlemagne,[1] what a magnificent structure of eight plates is
of gold, it connected from hinges, and it surmounted from a cross in the forehead,
and a crossing of arc the whole one as a rib from back to forehead. The
the other oblique rib has been lost, but originally the crown was furnished of arcade
from two ribs to the top. The gold dishes are adorned, one
with jewels and filigree and the next one with a great figure in
enamel. These figures are similar to those that happen on the Shovel
of gold.
[Footnote 1: Sees Fig tree. 1.]
[The illustration: the Detail; SHRINE OF THE THREE KINGS, EAU DE COLOGNE]
The Shrine of the Three Kings to eau de cologne is decorated both with
cloisonne and champleve enamels,--one unusual circumstance. In Aix
the Chapelle the shrine of Charlemagne is extremely as him in some
respects, but the only enamels are in champleve. Good examples
of translucent enamels in relief you/he/she can be seen on very of the
reliquaries to the her of Aix Chapelle.
Theophilus gives us directions to make a wine glass very richly adorned
with handles, it richly embossed and it adorned with mello. Another
paragraph instructs how to make a gilded wine glass decorated with
precious stones and pearls. It would be interesting as a modern
problem, to minutely follow his/her directions and to build the actual one
wine glass described in the eleventh century. To apply the gems and
pearls Theophilus directs us for "to cut pieces as connections" that
"You curve together to make the small settings of them from that the