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 203
els, and the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine, Bishopof Genoa (d. a.d. 1298), a compilation of early legends amplifyingthe story of Christ and the Virgin, and relating the miraculouslives of the Saints. Subjects from the Old Testament, so popularin Early Christian Art, and so often employed by… … Fig. 121.—End of the casket, fig. 120. Tristan and Iseult, with King Markin the tree ; the capture of the unicorn. fication of the Virgin. The commonest arrangement for a diptychis the association of the Virgin and Child between angels withthe Crucifixion (fig. 117), or of the Nativity with the…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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