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 53
ef somewhat after the manner of theGreek sculptor, though perhaps with a lessperfect discrimination. In the archaic Greek-period great bas - reliefs were entirelypainted; but in later times, colour, if em-ployed at all, served only for details of thefaces or for the decorated borders of gar-ments ;… … Panel of the sixth century in the John Rylands Library at Manchester: formerly in the collection of the Earl of Crawford. 1 ... imnianesque simul Latonia dentes, Qui secti ferro in tabulas auroque micantes,Inscripti rutilum caelato consule nomen,Per procercs et vulgus eant. Claudian, On the Second…
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