Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 247
Fig. 238. Detail ofCross in Fig. 235. Guilloches and Interlace. The Byzantine artists expanded the ap-plications of the Greek guilloche-motiveinto a whole system of interlaced patterns,in which squares, lozenges and circles,large and small, are combined with greatvariety and ingenuity. The more… … FiG. i?30A. 2 See Figure S4. and cf. Goblet dAlviella, The Migration of Symbols,pages 122-140. 220 BYZANTINE ORNA3IENT orate examples belong to the later developments.Some of the most complex designs are found in Ar-menia, where they almost rival the Celtic interlaces (seepage 271). Whether these…
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