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 39

An illustration from 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, leaf 39 — een in no. 340 is ofcommon occurrence in manuscripts, but is not that usually adopted in contemporarysculpture. The large diptychs of the fourteenth century with scenes from thePassion (cf. no. 284) suggest the influence of contemporary miniatures, and aredistinguished by their picturesque… … Ornament from a Twelfth-Century Biblein the British Museum (see under no. 40). INTRODUCTION xxxvii century. The question whether the carvers of the closing Gothic period and theRenaissance ever copied woodcuts and engravings is reserved for another place (p. xlvii). In the Baroque period, as might…

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