Question
These designs appear on the cover of a 1951 book by George Bain subtitled “The Methods of Construction,” which inspired one of them to grace the cover of King Crimson’s album Discipline. For 10 points each:
[10e] What designs include ones nicknamed for Solomon and “Dara,” the word for “oak tree”? The Book of Kells contains many examples of these Celtic endless interlace patterns, such as the “sailor’s” one.
ANSWER: Celtic knots [or knotwork]
[10m] Letters appear to be woven into knots in one form of this oldest style of Arabic calligraphy. The angular, linear strokes in this style were often imitated in Western medieval and Renaissance art.
ANSWER: Kufic script [accept Pseudo-Kufic script]
[10h] In Viking art styles such as Borre and Oseberg (“OOH-suh-berg”), interlaced “ribbon-animal” patterns often accompanied this other motif, in which a fantastical creature seems to clutch the artwork’s border with its paws.
ANSWER: gripping-beast motif
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