Catalogue of the ivory carvings of the Christian era with examples of Mohammedan art and carvings in bone in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum (1909)
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 32
scribed tosculptors accustomed to work in stone. Possibly for this reason the Renaissance 1 W. Voge, Catalogue, no. 33. 2 C. Justi, Jahrbuch der Koniglich Preussischen Kunstsammlungen, 1903, p. 264; A. Venturi,Storia, &c, iv, p. 212. In their papers on English sculpture Messrs. Prior and… … Angel from the Westrortal, Reims Cathedral. xxx INTRODUCTION preferred the nobler medium of bronze ; for wax, in which the creative part ofthe work is done, responds more immediately to the effort of the artist, andby a less laborious method the idea which possesses him is more swiftly and…
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