The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . From the artistic point of view it should be borne in mind that this absorp-tion in the Prankish em-pire of the domains ofthe Buro^undians, Ale-manni, Lombards, andthe rest, did not neces-sarily involve the extinc-tion of any distinctiveartistic feeling which^, ^ ,. , ^ . , , had been cultivated in The Frankish Empire at death of , . . Charles the Great, 814. the hitherto mdepend- entreo^ions. It is true that these distinctions becomeless marked as time advances, but Lombard art, forexample, remains Lombardic even after the Frank-ish conquest.


The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . From the artistic point of view it should be borne in mind that this absorp-tion in the Prankish em-pire of the domains ofthe Buro^undians, Ale-manni, Lombards, andthe rest, did not neces-sarily involve the extinc-tion of any distinctiveartistic feeling which^, ^ ,. , ^ . , , had been cultivated in The Frankish Empire at death of , . . Charles the Great, 814. the hitherto mdepend- entreo^ions. It is true that these distinctions becomeless marked as time advances, but Lombard art, forexample, remains Lombardic even after the Frank-ish conquest. At the Ssame time, if we want to ^3know what is speciallyor exclusively Burgun-dian, Alemannic, etc.,it is well to judge fromobjects produced duringthe respective periodsof independence, andon Ithis account two additional maps, S and T, are hereappended to exhibit, first in the case of the all-im- 94. CAROLINGIAN ART


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