Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 209
icephorus Phocas, and John Zimisces had once more expanded theimperial frontiers. Constantinople then seems to have occupied a positionwith regard to the ivory carvers art comparable to that of Paris in WesternEurope during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and perhaps 184 SCULPTUEE… … Fig. 111. The Baptism : ivory panel of the sixth century. (British Museum.) P. 208. of the empire ; but if so they probably copied metropolitan models no lessclosely than European mediaeval ivories copied those of Paris. The earliest Christian ivories naturally inherited the forms and typesof pagan…
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