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 267
they followed the newly com- posed and popular Pseudo-Matthew, executed a particular type of the Massacre of the Innocents created after their relics had been brought to Provence by Cassianus, and combined the Eastern iconography they found with the Hellenistic forms they had brought with them from… … Fig. 167. St. Maximix : Sarcophagus. posterior to the end of the first quarter of the century, they would date 425-500. Again, the style of the two fragments appears to be a little earlier than that of the Rouen diptych, which I dated between 450 and 475 A. D. The style on the Rouen diptych, while…
Christian art and symbolism · Ivory carving · Art
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