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Title: The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Brown, Gerard Baldwin, 1849-1932
Subjects: Decorative arts, Germanic Art, Germanic Germanic peoples -- Jewelry Decoration and ornament, Germanic
Publisher: London, Edinburgh, T. N. Foulis
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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and character from representa-tions in sculpture and painting, for it is a curious factthat very few actual examples have ever come tolight. The Romans also made great use of fasten-ings ofthe kind, especially for the military cloak, andthe famous mosaic picture ofthe Emperor Justinianat Ravenna (fig. ^2>) shows him wearing one. It isworthy of notice also that Justinians consort Theo-dora in the companion mosaic (fig. 34) wears twosuch brooches, one on each shoulder, and we are re-minded of the similar uses of the fibula evidenced inTeutonic graves (ante^ p. 50). It will be noticed thatfrom these round brooches there hang in each casependants. Theseseem to have been common attach-ments to brooches of a sumptuous kind, and we seethem falling from a fibula of another form, presentlyto be noticed, on a carved ivory figure ofthe periodrepresenting Roma in the Museum at Vienna(fig. 35). These pendants have in some cases sur-vived, as in that of the fibula from Petrossa shown 136 PLATE X
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