Technical Analysis
During the 11th century many of the Scandinavians became Christians. However, their abstract art was still persisting. The decoration of the wooden portal of the stave church located in Urnes, Norway is abstractly made up of animal forms that tightly inter-wine with flexible plant stalks following a spiral rhythm. This is one of the few remains left from this time which were later incorporated in the walls of a 12th century church. During this time while the abstract and animal motifs were spreading in art, the northern Europe Christian missionaries were building monasteries and sponsoring art with Christian content which was very different from art created before.
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