An introduction to the study of prehistoric art (1915)
Parkyn, Ernest Albert, b. 1857 · London, New York [etc.] : Longmans, Green and Co. · leaf 243
es, it may be said that it is with the discovery of metalsthat spiral designs are ushered upon the artistic stage.For this reason the origin of the spiral motive has beensought for in a piece of coiled wire. In the Bronze Ageit becomes one of the characteristic motives of the mostbeautiful… … Fig. 225.—Orchomcnos. Design onceiling of tomb. CHARACTER OF BRONZE AGE DECORATION 197 found in a few instances on material other than bronze.In a barrow on Folkton Wolds, in the East Ridino- ofYorkshire, Canon Greenwell discovered three chalk drumseneraved with geometrical desiofns amonorst which…
Art, Primitive
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