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 52
ornamented, but the same tendency THE EARLIER IRON AGE. 37 to make the body of the fibula too large and inconveniently heavywill still be evident. I have already mentioned the custom prevailing in Teutonic artto double a motif which had struck the popular fancy. InScandinavia we find that this also… … Fig. 25.—Fibula of gilt bronze, with garnets, etc. Gotland. of dissolution; in reality they no longer form the ends, asthe whole is surrounded by a rich border of incomplete andmaimed animals. The figures here given (19-26) represent the connection betweenthe art of the western Germans and that of…
Decorative arts · Art metal-work
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