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 81
strong influence, the source of which need not now besought. It suffices to acknowledge the influence and to observethe wide difference between the new patterns and the old ones. But this influence, whencesoever it came, was too strong not tooccasion more than the introduction of a new element. It… … Fig. 59.—Part of a necklace. Gotland. of Fig. 58 has absolutely the same general position as the discardedone. Thanks to the new and invigorating influence, the old decay-ing animal—which seemed with sufficient reason to be almost com-pletely lost—has been transformed into a new state of existence.…
Decorative arts · Art metal-work
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