A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 194
the influence of the East, notably of Persia, isapparent. Architecture plays a less prominent part than in theivories made in the Christian East in the fifth and sixth centuries ;single figures of saints are not so frequent between columns sur-mounted by arched niches, though canopies, often in… … Fig. 116.—Ivory draughtsmen, early thirteenth century. the most part by diptychs and triptychs made for purely devotionalpurposes, with subjects almost entirely derived from the lives ofOur Lord and the Virgin, or figures and busts of the saints. OldTestament subjects seem to have survived chiefly…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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