Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze (1910)
Perry, John Tavenor, 1842-1915 · London : G. Allen & Sons · leaf 48
ol of Rome,we can quite understand how it was the newly crowned Emperorof the West desired to erect this mark of his power in hisnorthern capital. The classic influence which Charlemagnes bronze work atAix-la-Chapelle exercised on the metal designers of Germanywas perceptible two centuries later in… … Fig. 6.—PiNE-CoNE, Rome 30 DINANDERIE extinguished, and presently made itself more powerfully feltthan the exotic ideas introduced from Rome. The Celtic inhabitants of Gaul were well acquainted withthe art of making bronze ornaments before the Roman occu-pation, and such work continued to be…