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Title: Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Perry, John Tavenor, 1842-1915
Subjects: Copper Brasses Bronzes Metal-work Art, Medieval
Publisher: London : G. Allen & Sons
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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although he hadbeen killed at the Battle of Nancy in 1477 (Fig. 68). The archi-tect of the tomb was Cornelius de Vrindt, generally known asFloris, and he w^as instructed to imitate the earlier monumentto the Duchess Mary ; and though the general character ofhis work is the same, the details lack altogether its grace, andalthough the shields and angels are reproduced, the foliage isomitted. The effigy of gilt copper is, however, very fine, but itsconception may be entirely due to Jacques Jongelincx, the gold-smith of Antwerp, who made the castings. The Duke is repre-sented in full armour, but wearing over it the mantle andcollar of the Golden Fleece, his helmet and gauntlets beingplaced on either side of him, and his feet resting against a lion. We have already spoken of the abnormal character of themonument to the Emperor Maximilian I. at Innsbruck, themost remarkable feature of which consists of the statues rangedround the church and entirely separated both in position and TOMBS 213
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Fig. 69.—Group, from the Maximilian Monument, Innsbruck 214 DINANDERIE style from the tomb itself. The effigy and sarcophagus we havesufficiently described, but further mention must be made of thetwenty-eight supporting figures. These are ranged in two lineson each side of the tomb, and divided into groups by the pillars

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