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Title: The ivory workers of the middle ages
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Cust, Anna Maria Elizabeth
Subjects: Ivories
Publisher: London, G. Bell and sons
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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equirements ofa wife: Pigne^ tressoir^ semblablenientEt miroir^ pou7 inoy ordonnerDyvoire me devez donner,Et Festuy qui soit noble et gentFendre a cheannes dargent. Quite a new range of subjects were introducedat the end of the thirteenth century, and in civil asin religious subjects the compositions were fixedand varied but little afterwards ; though we knowthat about 1340 there was a complete change indress, and the old-fashioned long loose robes,which fell in such soft folds were discarded fortighter and rather shorter garments ; these aresometimes seen in social groups, as the games ofla ntourre and la main chattde (a sort of forfeits),which are carved on a pair of writing tablets inthe Louvre. The subjects are nearly all from 146 GOTHIC the IVORIES of the MSS. literary sources, the miniatureshaving once more furnished models for the ivorycarver. There is a beautiful little casket in theBritish Museum with scenes from the romance ofLa Chastelaine de Vergi, and the delightful danc-
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ALINARI PHOTO.) (BARGELLO, FLORENCE 33. PLAQUE FROM A CASKET French, fourteenth century ing group in the Bargello (Fig. 33) formed partof a similar casket. The rhythmic flow of thesoft rich drapery as the dancers move to the soundof music is exceedingly beautiful and the treatmentbroad, considering that the whole scene is con-tained in little more than six square inches. The 147 IVORY WORKERS figures are well proportioned, but with hardly anymuscular development, and there is an entire ab-sence of manliness in the male figures, who canonly be recognized by the arrangement of thehair, the centre lock being cut across the forehead,and by the slightly shorter robes. Scenes are taken from the Lai dAristote andthe other so-called classical romances of Jason,Alexander and Virgil, the latter being describedas a mediaeval enchanter. Both he and poor Aris-totle were most cruelly treated by their mistresses,the dignified Virgil being compelled to crawl on allfours while the lady rides on his ba

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