Style: Influences, Chronology, and Meaning
Leslie Webster
Abstract This article investigates the Anglo-Saxon style from several angles: as part of a complex artistic tradition, and — despite limitations tool in securing chronological framework for material culture. Style study provides an unexpectedly revealing window onto world. The Saxon Relief overlapped with relatively short lifespan Quoit-Brooch Style. 1 played expressing local cultural identity. Carolingian influences increased under Alfred. By end ninth century, influence models becomes ever more visible. Winchester was great focus patronage production arts tenth eleventh centuries. Throughout Scandinavian styles had been influential on metalwork sculpture areas Viking settlement north; they entered repertoire southern England. Bayeux Tapestry is workmanship.
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