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[Plastic style]* inherited from Early style the transformation of men and monsters and the visual punning. But there was a new treatment of man and animal in which mass and contour, body and limb became three-dimensional patterns with their own inner coherence, which is not that of the natural creature. The simplified swirl of contour is shown admirable on bronze openwork fittings of unknown function that were found at Brno Malomerice** in Moravia, Czechosolvakia (Moravian Museum, Brno).’

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**[Malomeřĭce(?)]

***– ibid [Encylopaedia of Visual Art 2: 217]

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