Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 245
ese caskets are later than the iconoclastic disturbance, andbelong to a time when the pagan mythologic subjects were less popular.There are several isolated panels in existence which once formed part ofcaskets now lost. One is in the British Museum,1 and represents the arch-angel of the Expulsion… … Fig. 133. Adam and Eve : end of an ivory casket of the twelfth century. Graeven was the first to show, must have served Bonannus as a model forthe rendering of the same episode on the bronze doors of the cathedral atPisa : the arrangement and the treatment of the figures are identical, andAdam…
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