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Studies in East Christian and Roman art (1918)

Dennison, Walter, 1869-1917, Morey, Charles Rufus, 1877-1955 · New York : The MacMillan company · leaf 177

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er Friedrich Museum at Berlin is a medallion of Valens (Tav. xv, 2) and one of Theodo- sius (Tav. xix, 12; our Fig. 4). More than fifty gold coins and medallions which have been transformed into articles of jewelry are known up to the present time; most of them are reproduced in Gnecchi's plates.… … FIG. 4. Gold Medallion of Theodosius, now in Berlin. Provided with a loop for suspension. Original size. tion, which were evidently produced by a different school of goldsmiths, and present types of exceptional interest. Gold coins were frequently mounted also, in beautiful settings of gold, in…

Christian art and symbolism · Illumination of books and manuscripts · Painting, Byzantine · Art, Roman · Coins, Roman · Jewelry, Ancient

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