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History of mediaeval art (1887)

Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 272

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cant than these works, which rather deserve to beconsidered as the last efforts of the expiring art of antiquity, arethe memorials of the Northern races of this epoch. Three greatcurrents are here recognizable, from the confluence of which thecharacteristics of northern art resulted, local and… … Fig. 124.—So-called Pax of the Duke Ursus inCividale. 236 THE CHRISTIAN ART OF THE NORTH. wares of beaten metal to all the coasts of Northern Europe in ex-change for tin and amber. The empaistic style of these works wassucceeded by the artistic methods of Rome, which entirely obliter-ated the…

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