exture and the
splendour of the jewels and precious stones set into it,
as well as for the exquisite beauty of its embroideries.
These are some of the characteristics of the opus
Anglicanum.

[524] Appendix 6.

[525] Mrs. Bayman, of the Royal School of Art
Needlework.

[526] If it is true that in the days of the Greeks and
Romans the art of acupictura or needle-painting copied
pictorial art, so likewise in the Egyptian early times,
painted linens imitated embroideries. This we learn by
specimens from the tombs. Painted hangings and
embroideries appear to have been equally used for
processional decorations. In the Middle Ages painted
hangings imitated embroideries and woven hangings, and
were considered as legitimate art.

[527] See Bock, vol. i. p. 10.

[528] Exhibited in the "Esposizione Romana" in 1869, in
the cloisters of Santa Maria degli Angeli.

[529] See Woltmann and Woermann, who quote evidence as
to works in painted glass as early as the ninth and
tenth centuries in France and Germany ("History of
Painting," vol. i. pp. 316-339). They remark that the
character of painted glass is nearly akin to textile
decoration, that it is essentially flat and unpictorial.
And doubtless there is an analogy between the two, but
rather suggesting patchwork or cut work than legitimate
embroidery.

[530] "Vasari," ed. Monce, taf. v. p. 101.

[531] See plate 69, which is a fine altar-frontal of the
plateresque Spanish.

[532] The dress of the "Virgin del Sagrario" at Toledo,
embroidered with pearls, and the chasuble of Valencia,
worked with corals, show how profusely these costly
materials were employed.

[533] See "The Industrial Arts of Spain," pp. 250-264,
by Don Juan F. Riano, and catalogues of Loan Exhibition
by him for the South Kensington Museum series, 1881. The
works of Spanish Queens and Infantas are to be seen at
the Atocha, the church of the Virgin del Pilar at
Madrid.

[534] There are most interesting examples of Scriptural
subjects in Bock's "Liturgische Gewaender," i. taf. x.
pp. 207, 208; taf. xi. pp. 239-278. These are of the
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; and we have some
good fifteenth century bead-work in the South Kensington
Museum.

[535] The splendid embroideries from Westminster Abbey,