The arts in early England (1903) (14781616331)

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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ve, to right and left of the upper plate,are creatures almost all head, and two rather better propor-tioned ones are confronted on the upper line of the head plate.In the case of all these four beasts the jaws are open. Oneach side of the full, face upside down in the middle part ofthe head plate, is a creature of the same type doubled up intothe side space. In the upper corners of these spaces to rightand left are the heads with round eyes, two lines for the eye-brow and a beak like that of a parrot. Slanting down fromthis towards the centre comes the neck and what is evidentlymeant for the foreleg fills the two bottom corners, though itdoes not articulate as it should at the bottom of the neck.From what ought to be the articulation of this foreleg belowthe neck the trunk of the creature ascends perpendicularly andterminates in a well-rendered hind leg with its double claw.Below, on the foot, on each side of the bow can be discerned LXII facing p. 326 SILVER FIBULA FROM BIFRONS IWAll
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Enlarged to ^ more than natural size DR. SALINS SCHEME 327 the projecting heads apparently of birds, almost confused withthe front paws of the couchant leopard. The clearest is tothe left. Finally round the central lozenge runs a band withanimals in low relief more confused and inchoate than any ofthe others, but, as examination shows, of much the same breed.Four human heads accordingly, two of the horses head type,two birds heads below the bow, four crouching beasts on themargin of the foot treated more or less in the round, andabout a dozen figured in relief make up the ornamental formsdistributed over the piece, the date of which may be fixedabout the middle of VI. The often quoted work of Dr. Bernhard Salin contains aminute analysis of the different forms assumed by this Germanicanimal ornament from the time when in dealing with thecrouching animal taken over from provincial-Roman art itbegins to modify this in its own spirit, a time he fixes at theclose of V, down to the period o