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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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LXXXIII facing p. 375 TEUTONIC COSTUME IN SCULPTURE LXXXIII
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Alljrom Continental monuments DRESS ON ANTIQUE MONUMENTS 375 like the men, and he refers in their case to linen tunicstrimmed with purple, which had no sleeves and left the arms,shoulders, and upper part of the bosom bare.1 The early-sculptured monuments convey the same impression. On thetombstones the fallen German wears sometimes the cloak andnothing else and sometimes only the trews.2 A bronzestatuette of a kneeling German in the Bibliotheque Nationale,Paris,3 is clad in trews and a cloak, and on the Antoninecolumn a Roman is fighting a barbarian equipped in the samefashion.4 At a much later date in VI Agathias describes thefoot-soldiers of the Frankish-Alamannic host that Butelin ledinto Italy in 553 as dressed only in the trews, covering theloins and lower limbs. On the reliefs of the Antoninecolumn the tunic is also much in evidence both on male andon female figures and is represented often as sleeveless,PL lxxxiii, 4, and as worn under a mantle quite in classicalfashion, No. 3.

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