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Needlework as art (1886)

Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess, 1817-1888 · London, S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington · leaf 80

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Jeremiah, vol. i. p. 319). 1 Scandinavian art became strongly tinctured with that of Byzantium.The Varangian Guards were, probably, answerable for this, by theirintercourse between Greece and their native land, which lasted somany centuries. There have come down to us, as witnesses of… … Style. 41 into Rome, as they had long done into the Greek islands,by the Red Sea or by land through Tyre. Ezekiel (590b.c.) mentions the Indian trade through Aden. Theo-doras dress has a deep border of gold, embroideredwith classical warriors pursuing each other with swords.1Works enriched with…

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