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History of mediaeval art (1887)

Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 655

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attributes,the crozier, and the book {Fig.388), or to the act of blessingwith the uplifted right hand.The long liturgical garments, with their many folds, and the insig-nia of the bishops, were better adapted to representation than wasthe knightly armor of the time. From similar reasons the… … Fig. 387.—Engraved Brass from the Tomb ofthe Priest Gerard von Lynden (d. 1366) atNossendorf, near Demmin, GERMANY. a more matronly and bourgeois conception. The preference for asuperabundance of folds in the drapery, peculiar to the Germans,made itself more and more felt. In Germany, as in France,…

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