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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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inting. These sculptures, unlike theunmixed ivory of the French carvings, were alwaysframed in narrow intarsia borders. Small trip-tychs (Fig. 37) developed into enormous size, asthe great altar-piece in the old Sacristy at theCertosa at Pavia and the famous retable in theLouvre, which comes from the abbey of Poissy,and was the gift of the Due de Berri, brother ofCharles V., and one of the regents for the youngCharles VI. in 1380. It contains his portrait andthat of his wife, Jehanne de Bourgogne. Thefragments of a third large retable still exist,divided between the John Rylands Library atManchester and the Victoria and Albert Museum. These retables are large in size, but not great indesign, and though the groups of figures are lovelyin detail, they are not impressive as a whole, thelow relief giving little scope for the play of lightand shade. There are many beautiful polygonal casketswith domed covers, also combs and other smallarticles, and a very excellent account of the whole 154
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iTriYrtVIYfM (victoria and albert museum, LONDONLOAN COLLECTION HON. A. BERESFORD-HOLE, M.P. 1,-. TRIPTYCH IX CARVED BONEItalian, early tifteenth centun* IVORY WORKERS series has been given by Julius v. Schlosser in theWiener Jahrbuch for 1900. This short account of the Ivory Workers of theMiddle Ages commenced with Italy in the lastyears of the fourth century, and, having made theround of Europe, returns to her after a thousandyears, at the end of the fourteenth century, andmust close, just at the outgoing of the mediaevalera, with this magnificent group of carvings,which lies half across the border line of the earlyand true Renascimento. 156 LIST OF DIPTYCHS FROM MOLIXIERCONSULAR 1. About 400. (Probably) Stilicho.\a. Stilicho, standing, armed, bearded.\d, Serena and little Eucherius, standing. Tesorio della Basilica, Monza. 2. 406. Probus. Rome. \a. Emperor Honorius,standing,armed,\vith standard and orb.\b. Emperor Honorius, standing, armed, with shield and spear. Catlied7al Treasia

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