The industrial arts of Scandinavia in the pagan time (1883)
Hildebrand, Hans, 1842-1913 · [London] Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman & Hall · leaf 33
er ones. Of greater interest it is toobserve how a vigorous national art seizes degraded copies andmakes them the starting-point for a quite new evolution. Thebad imitations of the Roman medallions called into existence in c i8 SCANDINA VIAN INDUSTRIAL ART. Denmark and Scandinavia, under the… … Fig. 8.—Personal ornament of gold bracteate. Found in Sweden. literature of the North the very unfit name of gold bracteates :they resemble the middle-age bracteates in having designs on oneside only, but they have not the extreme thinness of the laterexamples which the name is meant to indicate.…
Decorative arts · Art metal-work
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