Styles of ornament, exhibited in designs, and arranged in historical order, with descriptive text. A handbook for architects, designers, painters, sculptors, wood-carvers, chasers, modellers, cabinet-makers and artistic locksmiths as well as also for technical schools, libraries and private study (1910)
Speltz, Alexander, O'Conor, David · New York : E. Weyhe · leaf 126
f the Celts, if we excludeArchitecture and Sculpture, even though primitive, was still a thoroughly charac-teristic, peculiar one. The Eastern Goths, who ruled Italy from 493 to 555,but who soon lost their peculiar individuality, did not cherish this style of artas the Lombards did. These latter,… … Mural painting from the Coemeterium Majus, Rome (Wilpert, Malereien der Katakomben Roms). 3» 116 EARLY CHRISTIAN ORNAMENT. Plate 57.
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