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 63
EARLY CHRISTIAN ICONOGRAPHY 43 Sabina2S at Rome, the style of which is undoubtedly that of some one of the great Hellenistic centres in the East, represents (Fig. 34) the three Magi, beardless, advancing in a line toward the Virgin, who is seated in a three- quarters position on a high podium,… … Fig. 34. Rome : S. Sabina, panel of doors. Adoration of the Magi. lap. On the sarcophagus29 of the Armenian Exarch Isaac (d. 643 A. D.), formerly in S. Vitale and now in the Royal Museum at Ravenna, occurs this same Hellenistic type. This sarcophagus, as is shown in the dis- cussion of the scene of…
Christian art and symbolism · Ivory carving · Art
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