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 41
explained by the description which says that Mary, “entering a stable, placed the Child in the manger, and the ox and the ass adored Him. . . . And Joseph and Mary lived in this place with the Child for three days.’’ We may have then, in this scene, that dependence on the Pseudo-Matthew text which… … to connect it with the Adoration of the Magi. On a sarcophagus cover of Provencal style at Milan,28 which has already been cited in the first group, there is an undoubtedly symbolical representation of the Adoration of the Ox and the Ass (Fig. 7). On a sarcophagus of S. Trophime at Arles29 (Fig.…
Christian art and symbolism · Ivory carving · Art
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