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Leonard Williams. The Arts and Crafts of Older Spain
The Arts and Crafts of Older Spain
Table of Contents
Volume 1
Table of Contents
PREFACE
GOLD, SILVER, AND JEWEL WORK
IRON-WORK
BRONZES
Arms
FIREARMS
Saddlery and Coaches
Volume 2
Table of Contents
FURNITURE
Leather
Carpentry and Wood-Carving
Sacred Statuary, Sillerías or Choir-Stalls, and Retablos
IVORIES
POTTERY
Ancient
Hispano-Moresque Non-lustred Pottery
Mosaic-Work and Tiles
Hispano-Moresque Lustred Pottery
Pottery of Seville, Puente Del Arzobispo, Talavera De La Reina, Toledo, and Barcelona; Porous Ware; Porcelain of Alcora and the Royal Factory of the Buen Retiro
GLASS
Volume 3
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
SPANISH SILK
CLOTHS AND WOOLLENS
EMBROIDERY
TAPESTRY
LACE
APPENDICES
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
FIRST ORDER
SECOND ORDER
THIRD ORDER
FOURTH ORDER
Appendix D
Appendix E
Appendix F
Appendix G
Appendix H
Appendix I
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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The weapons and war-harness of the Spanish Moors were often exquisitely decorated with the precious stones or metals. Splendid objects of this kind have been preserved, and will be noticed in their proper chapter.
The ruinous and reckless measure known to Spain's eternal shame as the Expulsion of the Moriscos, deprived this country of a great—perhaps the greatest—part of her resources. Fonseca estimates this loss, solely in the quantity of coin conveyed away, at two million and eight hundred thousand escudos, adding that a single Morisco, Alami Delascar de Aberique, bore off with him one hundred thousand ducats.42 To make this matter worse, the Moriscos, just before they went on board their ships, fashioned from scraps of tin, old nails, and other refuse, enormous stores of counterfeit coin, and slyly sold this rubbish to the simple Spaniards in return for lawful money of the land. In the course of a few days, and in a single quarter of Valencia, more than three hundred thousand ducats of false coin were thus passed off upon the Christians. Besides this exportation of good Spanish money, the cunning fugitives removed huge quantities of jewellery and plate. Chains, axorcas, rings, zarcillos, and gold escudos were taken from the bodies of many of the Morisco women who were murdered by the Spanish soldiery; but the greater part of all this treasure found its way to Africa. In his work Expulsión justificada de los Moriscos (1612), Aznar de Cardona says that the Morisco women carried “divers plates upon the breast, together with necklaces and collars, earrings and bracelets.” It is recorded, too, that the Moriscos, as they struggled in the country regions to avenge themselves upon their persecutors, did unlimited damage to the ornaments and fittings of the churches. “This people,” says Fonseca, “respected not our temples or the holy images that in them were; nor yet the chalices and other objects they encountered in our sacristies. Upon the contrary, they smashed the crosses, burned the saints, profaned the sacred vestments, and committed such acts of sacrilege as though they had been Algerian Moors, or Turks of Constantinople.”
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