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 167
EARLY CHRISTIAN ICONOGRAPHY 147 objects, like the Barberini diptych,2 in Frankish cities at an early date, and the dependence of certain reliefs at Aachen on Egyptian or Alexandrian models make this relation manifest. The most interesting parallel for the present problem is the connection of the… … Fig. 136. Alexandria : Catacombs, fresco. Christ Triumphant. drian prototypes.3 Among these early Frankish scenes, the representation of a mounted horseman lancing an animal upon the ground has been shown, by Strzygowski,4 to have been taken from a Christian type of Egypt which in its turn was…
Christian art and symbolism · Ivory carving · Art
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