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Celtic art in pagan and Christian times (1904)

Allen, J. Romilly (John Romilly), 1847-1907 · London, Methuen & Co · leaf 268

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ar pro-jections in a similar position, giving an appearance notunlike the cusping in Gothic window tracery. The free-standing crosses of Wales and Cornwalldiffer from those of Ireland in having heads of much 1 Petries Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, vol. ii., p. 66. 2 Ibid., vol. i.,… … Cross at Nevern, PembrokeshireScale linear 192 CELTIC ART smaller diameter in proportion to the height of theshaft, and bases are the exception rather than the rule.In the Welsh and Cornish crosses figure sculpture ismade altogether subordinate to ornament, whilst in theIrish crosses exactly the…

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