Early Christian iconography and A school of ivory carvers in Provence (1918)
Smith, E. Baldwin (Earl Baldwin), 1888-1956 · Princeton, Princeton university press; [etc.,etc.] · leaf 106
olism during the early centuries of Christian art. Nevertheless it offers an easy means of classifying the variations of the Hellenistic type. Groups I-VI. In these groups the only variation in the representation is the number of jars, varying from one to seven, which Christ touches with His wand.… … Fig. 72. Algiers: sarcophagus from Numidia. The Miracle of Cana. which differ from the others in the detail that Christ does not carry a wand.3 The group with three jars is by far the largest; it includes two sarcophagi of Arles, one of Gerona, one of Marseilles, one of Saragossa, and eight of…
Christian art and symbolism · Ivory carving · Art
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