Cantor lectures on the arts of tapestry making and embroidery ..delivered before the Society, April 5th, 12th and 19th, 1886 . considers this pattern to represent two lionscouchants. Lions coicchants and vis-a-visoften appear in Roman ornament, as well,indeed, as in many other types of ornament,and this motive has been adopted by Teutonictribes, who have remodelled it according tothe exigencies of their taste, or as far as theirlimited skill permitted them. A further transformation of the lion motive,gives us the so-called lion shapes intersectingone another, and, as it were, squeezed up to fi
Cantor lectures on the arts of tapestry making and embroidery ..delivered before the Society, April 5th, 12th and 19th, 1886 . considers this pattern to represent two lionscouchants. Lions coicchants and vis-a-visoften appear in Roman ornament, as well,indeed, as in many other types of ornament,and this motive has been adopted by Teutonictribes, who have remodelled it according tothe exigencies of their taste, or as far as theirlimited skill permitted them. A further transformation of the lion motive,gives us the so-called lion shapes intersectingone another, and, as it were, squeezed up to fita square space (Fig. 11). The corrupted repre-sentation of the animals has become still more Fig. unlike the Roman rendering— the forms are nolonger vis-a-vis to one another, but are inter-laced. A likeness in details between this andthe first of the Scandinavian renderings is,however, noticeable. Symmetrical distribu-tion and balance of forms grow in emphasis, asthe likeness to animal forms—always obscure—declines (Fig. 12). Other and later specimens show further developments of the two lionsubjects. The increased elaboration in inter-lacing the forms marks a still further developedskill on the part of the designers in sym-metrically arranging forms in a given space(Fig. 13) Fig. 13.
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