Borough Seals Of The Gothic Period - A Series Of Examples, Illustrating The Nature Of Their Design And Artistic Value (1904) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CONSTITUENTS OF ORNAMENT 15 seal engraver, ecclesiastical or borough, was invariably manifested in presentments of the human figure. And through this weakness an otherwise fine creation was not infrequently marred. But upon borough seals figure studies are much rarer than upon religious, and consequently the art of the best instances of the former is seldom qualified in this way. The most prolific period of borough seal production was the thirteenth century. In quantity, the output of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries approximated, but the importance of both was subordinate to that of the preceding. Borough seal illustration has already been characteristically defined as a reflection of the secular conditions and common features of civil life in the Middle Ages, in contradistinction to ecclesiastical seal design, which, with equal peculiarity, has been determined as a reflection of religious life contemporaneous. Of wider range, and embracing at the same time the restricted view of the other, the first is naturally much more informative and valuable, as well as much more interesting. Since the seal was the sign-manual of a certain body of men, or rather of a particular locality inhabited and governed by an association of individuals, it was not only natural, but to a large extent necessary, that a relation more or less intimate should subsist between its design and the district in which it was exercised. Hence, and for various other reasons which suggest themselves, illustration was constrained to keep within a certain limited sphere, so that the elements which it comprised are subject to general classifications. But in the disposition of these elements an infinite variety of combination was secured. The constituents of ornament prevailing in the twelfth century, ...

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Imprint:	Kessinger Publishing Co
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2009
First published:	October 2009
Editors:	Gale Pedrick
Dimensions:	235 x 191 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-1-120-26800-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms
LSN:	1-120-26800-1
Barcode:	9781120268006

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