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 46
he Virgin is here Fig, 18. British Museum: ivory. Fig. 19. Vienna: K. K. Munzkabi- The Nativity. nett, ivory pyxis. The Nativity. seated as on the Western sarcophagi. The first reason, then, for connect- ing this type with Egypt is its appearance in the Bawit fresco and the fact that all the above… … Fig. 20. Berlin: Museum, ivory pyxis from Minden. The Nativity. Reveillout47 has found some Coptic apocryphal fragments belonging to the Gospel of the Twelve Apostles which prove that this detail originated in Egypt. In the Protevangelium of James and the Gospel of Pseudo- Matthew, which goes back…
Christian art and symbolism · Ivory carving · Art
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