The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 409
was then tlie custom for great personages to send as présentsdiptychs of ivory, on tlie outer face of whicli -çvere carved bas-reliefsrecalling some mémorable event. Monarchs, on tbeir accession, were in thehabit of conferring diptj^clis of tMs kind on tbe governors of provincesand bishops ; and… … Fig. 274.—Restoration of a Roman Triuraphal Arcb, with its Bas-reliefs. présentation of diptychs. For two centuries artists lived on nothing butthis kind of work. It needed events of some very extraordiaary characterto cause the production of any moniiment of real sculpture. In the sixth century…
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