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 161
EARLY CHRISTIAN ICONOGRAPHY 141 symbol, at least as a symbol of the Eucharist. The scene of the Last Supper among the Biblical representations on the walls of St. Sergius at Gaza, built by Justinian, as it is described by the chronicler Chorikios, … was very like the miniature scene of the Rossano Gospels.30 With few changes this rendering of the Rossano Gospels was adopted as the Byzan- tine type; by the ninth century the added feature of John leaning on the Master's breast made the scene even more narrative in character.37 XVI THE…
Christian art and symbolism · Ivory carving · Art
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