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The barbarian art of the Vikings was not impervious to Byzantine influences. Later, in Romanesque times, numerous contacts with France and the Mediterranean countries had a decisive effect on Scandinavian art. In this small metal figure of the Virgin, found in Randers Fjord in Denmark, linear stylization dominates. The Nordic artist transformed the French type of Virgin in Glory by a style compounded of plane surfaces and angles to produce a work in which severity and a tendency toward abstraction create a remarkable formal beauty.
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