The ivory workers of the middle ages . W -i^* V; W I P. K--^j fS kJ- ALIXARI PHOTO.] [BARGELLO, FLORENCE 6. DIPTVCH WITH THE EARTHLY PARADISE AND SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF ST. PAUL Italian, fifth century IVORY WORKERS with the carvings on the facade of OrvietoCathedral. The second leaf of the Bargello diptych iscovered with three rows of exquisitely carved andwell characterized figures. The top row may re-present the meeting of Paul and Barnabas withPeter at Damascus. The next shows Paul atMalta, shaking the viper into the fire(Acts, xviii. 3),and remaining unhurt, to the surprise of Publius,gov
The ivory workers of the middle ages . W -i^* V; W I P. K--^j fS kJ- ALIXARI PHOTO.] [BARGELLO, FLORENCE 6. DIPTVCH WITH THE EARTHLY PARADISE AND SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF ST. PAUL Italian, fifth century IVORY WORKERS with the carvings on the facade of OrvietoCathedral. The second leaf of the Bargello diptych iscovered with three rows of exquisitely carved andwell characterized figures. The top row may re-present the meeting of Paul and Barnabas withPeter at Damascus. The next shows Paul atMalta, shaking the viper into the fire(Acts, xviii. 3),and remaining unhurt, to the surprise of Publius,governor of the island, who stands by dressed asa man of rank in a chlamys embroidered with asegment and fastened by a rich fibula. The soldierwith the strange sleeved fur coat hung over hisshoulders is probably one of the governors the bottom we see the healing of the father ofPublius, who lay sick of a fever. The Lipsanoteca, or large ivory casket in theMuseo Civico at Brescia, is a fine work of earlyChristian sculpture, and has far more conne
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