The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 423
the custom for great personages to send as presentsdiptychs of ivory, on the outer face of which were carved bas-reliefsrecalling some memorable event. Monarchs, on their accession, were in thehabit of conferring diptychs of this kind on the governors of provincesand bishops ; and the latter, in… … Fig. 274.—Restoration of a Roman Triumphal Arch, with its Bas-reliefs. presentation of diptychs. For two centuries artists lived on nothing butthis kind of work. It needed events of some very extraordinary characterto cause the production of any monument of real sculpture. In the sixth century the…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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