History of mediæval art . culptured decoration of the south portal of the Cathe-dral of Ely, and the crucifix of Romsey. The same may be said ofScotland and Ireland, where wood carving had early been practised ;and more especially also of Scandinavia. The monstrous carved orna-ments of intertwined patterns, peculiar to Northern art, have alreadybeen referred to. The few productions worthy of remark, and ref-erable to this period, which are to be met with in Denmark, Nor-way, and Sweden,—such as the altar-piece with an antependium andsuperfrontale in relief, from Lisbjerg in Jutland, now in the
History of mediæval art . culptured decoration of the south portal of the Cathe-dral of Ely, and the crucifix of Romsey. The same may be said ofScotland and Ireland, where wood carving had early been practised ;and more especially also of Scandinavia. The monstrous carved orna-ments of intertwined patterns, peculiar to Northern art, have alreadybeen referred to. The few productions worthy of remark, and ref-erable to this period, which are to be met with in Denmark, Nor-way, and Sweden,—such as the altar-piece with an antependium andsuperfrontale in relief, from Lisbjerg in Jutland, now in the SouthKensington Museum of London,—must be assumed to have beenimported from the southern coast of the Baltic, or from some othercountry visited by the ships of the seafaring inhabitants. Higherculture had but reached its first stages in these northern lands, andno important monumental sculpture was possible until architecturehad attained a higher development. ^?r^^ PS* ???*3HiF- WmBSWVKm - : ? 1 p I ,WBEmBm.
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