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Identifier: artsinearlyengla03brow (find matches)
Title: The arts in early England
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932 Webster, A. Blyth (Adam Blyth), 1882-1956 Sexton, Eric H. L. (Eric Hyde Lord), 1902-1980
Subjects: Art Architecture Architecture, Medieval Church architecture Crosses Decoration and ornament, Celtic Inscriptions, Runic
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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that makesany rigid separation inexpedient. The truth is that thesedemarcations are of the utmost value to a worker when he issorting out a heterogeneous mass of examples. They cannotbe dispensed with at the time, and moreover they always retainconsiderable worth, that should not however be exaggerated.The styles of Minoan vase decoration are reckoned in Knossiancircles as equal in number to the Muses, but some archaeo-logists of repute doubt whether such minute subdivision canreally be carried out in practice. So far as our Anglo-Saxon work is concerned, we may readthe history of Dr. Salins Style i writ clearly on our ownsaucer, applied, and square headed brooches, which show theclassical couchant beast and beast in profile gradually deformedand broken up through the lustres of VI, till at the beginningof VII the animal is reduced to the summary presentmentillustrated in the panels of the Kingston fibula on the 1 Tbieromamentik, p. 270. LXIII facing p. 329 INTERLACING ANIMAL ORNAMENT
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1, slightly reduced ; 3, 5, 6, somewhat enlarged ANIMAL FORMS AND INTERLACING 329 Frontispiece to this volume. There is one characteristichowever that belongs to all these creatures whether coherentor fragmentary. They are confronted or turned back toback, they follow each other round a circle or are distributedpiecemeal over a field, but however crowded the arrangementthey do not as a rule impinge on each other or intertwine.It is not meant that the forms never interlace, but it iscertainly not their habit so to do, and it will be shown inthe sequel (p. 340 f.) that a specious appearance of interlacingis produced by the juxtaposition of forms that appear atfirst sight to go under and over each other but are reallyseparate and on the same plane. The examples which willbe presently shown on Pll. lxv to lxviii broadly viewed willbe seen to bear out what is here said, and we may take itthat during VI the animal forms corresponding to Dr. SalinsStyle 1 do not to any marked extent interlac

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