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 55
apelle, and explained theprobable source of his inspiration, since those masks wereevidently intended to represent lions heads as they appear inmany Roman examples, though we find that a large number ofthe great heads which were placed on the church doors of theeleventh and twelfth centuries could… … Fig. 14.—Head, Vold Borre, Norway a tendency to introduce grotesque faces, as well as thoseserpentine forms and heads, which were perhaps intended toconvey some religious symbolism. The skill with which theseNorthern artificers portrayed some of these heads shows boththeir cleverness in the…
