at the Spanishwarriors of the Middle Ao;es were accustomed tocarry these images to war with them, fitted upona pin protruding from the left side of the saddle-bow. The Virgin of Battles, made in Spainin the early part of the thirteenth century, wasthus carried by King Ferdinand the Saint,… … SPANISH MEDL^VAL BACULUS IVORIES not as yet emancipated from Romanic and Byzan-tine art; and the expression of the Madonna andher Babe is marked by an engaging sweetness.Through lapse of centuries, myriads of diminutivecracks have opened on the surface of the ivory,and this has turned, in colour,…
Decorative arts -- Spain History
Internet Archive · Wellesley College Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from A catalogue of minor art [electronic resource] : collection formed by C. & E. Canessa (1917)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-bml-NK600_C16c-58-31.webp)
