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 147
sustained, not only by its appearance on the Maximianus chair, and by the presence of the cross which Christ usually carries on Egyptian monuments, but also by its occur- rence on the carved wooden lintel of the church of el Mu'allaka near Cairo Group V. Palestinian-C optic Type. There is little to… … Fig. 117. Florence: Laurentiana, Gospels of Rabula. Christ entering Jerusalem. disciple, and before Him a man spreads his mantle while three other men come forward with palm branches. It is interesting to note that this scene is essentially duplicated on the ciborium columns of San Marco.19 With…
Christian art and symbolism · Ivory carving · Art
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