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Notes on Irish architecture (1875)

Dunraven, Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin, Earl of, 1812-1871, Stokes, Margaret, 1832-1900 · London, G. Bell and Sons · leaf 348

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oo confidently used. Sucli designs are found in archaic art in mostparts of the world, and still appear in the native work of Japan and India. There are,however, two designs which seem to be specially characteristic of Celtic art; these area peculiar development of the double spiral line, totally… … \ / is termed the Divergent Spiral or Trumpet pattern, and its appearance in the art of Ireland,from the bronze works of the early Celtic period found in the stone tombs of a pre-historicage to the capitals of Cormacs Chapel, stamps the architecture of Ireland with a distinctivenative character.…

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