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 52
was pictured in a cave, that the Virgin was depicted reclining on a mat- tress, that at least one midwife was represented “washing the Child,” and that the Adorations of the beasts, the shepherds, and the angels were in- cluded in the scene. To this description Heisenberg, who attempts to restore… … Fig. 25. Paris: Bibl. Nat., Ms. gr. 7 4. The Nativity. from the eighth century on in the East the Adoration of the angels is combined with the Adoration of the animals,75 with the Adoration of (or in some cases more properly the Annunciation to) the Shepherds,76 and often with the Adoration of the…
Christian art and symbolism · Ivory carving · Art
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