Cantor lectures on the arts of tapestry making and embroidery ... delivered before the Society, April 5th, 12th and 19th, 1886 (1886)
Cole, Alan S. (Alan Summerly), 1846-1934, Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (Great Britain) · London, W. Trounce · leaf 16
d vis-a-visoften appear in Roman ornament, as well,indeed, as in many other types of ornament,and this motive has been adopted by Teutonictribes, who have remodelled it according tothe exigencies of their taste, or as far as theirlimited skill permitted them. A further transformation of the lion… … unlike the Roman rendering— the forms are nolonger vis-a-vis to one another, but are inter-laced. A likeness in details between this andthe first of the Scandinavian renderings is,however, noticeable. Symmetrical distribu-tion and balance of forms grow in emphasis, asthe likeness to animal…
Tapestry · Embroidery
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