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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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all size, and there isgreat freedom of movement in the lower group,each pose being cleverly characterized ; the group-ing is scarcely freer in the Italian conception ofthis subject, and the upraised hand of the apostleon the Virgins left is to be seen, centuries later,in the famous Assumption of the Virgin byTitian. There are many other plaques with scenicpictures. The elaborate carving of the Death ofthe Virgin is still fixed to the Bamberg Missal,which belonged to Cunigunda, wife of the EmperorHenry II. (1002-1028). The scene is crowded,and takes place under a richly pierced canopy.Christ holds the Infant Soul of the Virgin, whilsttwo angels with veiled hands fly down to receive it. Perhaps the most beautiful of all these pictorialsculptures is a diptych now unfortunately divided.Each leaf has two scenes, the first, representing theHoly Worn671 kneeling befo7^e the risen Christ andthe Resnrrection, is at Dresden, while the other,with the CrtLcifixion and the Deposition, is in the 88
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DR. H. GRAEVEN PHOTO.) (BARGELI.O, FLORENCE i8. ASCENSIONByzantine, eleventh century IVORY WORKERS Provincial Museum at Hanover. The variousscenes are treated with much freedom, and theproportions are excellent. It is enough to glanceat the appalling length of the two Maries in atwelfth century plaque with the Res^irrection(Bargello) to realize how much we have to bethankful for in the earlier periods. There are a large number of triptychs ^ all moreor less of the Harbaville school. A fine oneat the Louvre of Christ and St. Theodore haslost the second wing, and of another still finerone, only the splendidly carved wings remain,widely separated now, one being in Vienna andthe other in the Doges Palace at Venice. Severalof these little shrines inclose a group of theVirgin and Child, the two most beautiful beingin the Episcopal Museums of Utrecht and Liege.Count Strogonoff in his interesting collection atRome has a particularly fine seated Virghi andChild. The whole pose is most pleasing

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