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 85
en theboldest imagination can discover in them any definite patterns. I will produce but a few representations of these last signsof decaying art: they give us, it is true, a lesson in the- lawsof art-development, but they cannot be of any practical use 7° SCANDINAVIAN INDUSTRIAL ART unless perhaps… … Figs. 64, 65.—Bronze fibula. GotlanJ. Again we meet (Figs. 64 and 65) the large fibula, characterisedby the low arc connecting the two end pieces. It is too largeand heavy to be commodious, all variety of pattern on the broadsurface is gone, and the ornaments are either simple and mono-tonous, or…
Decorative arts · Art metal-work
Internet Archive · Smithsonian Libraries · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
