"The most important contribution of the Barbarians to art as a whole was in the field of the minor arts, a vast territory allowing full play to the conception of art as an ornamental function, to the love of glittering materials, to a flair for colour, and for purely decorative and abstract patterns." (172)
Gina Pischel




 

172. Gina Pischel, A World History of Art, (New York, Golden Press, 1968), p.170