The ivory workers of the middle ages . se animals may be compared with thoseon the diptych of Bourges, which are scatteredover the background in much the same way, butwith less defiance of perspective, as they are sup-posed to be leaping in the act of fighting. The object of much controversy is another fineEarthly Paradise carved on the back of an Areo-bindus diptych in the Louvre (No. 13). It isdivided into registers by irregular lines of herbage ;above are Adam and Eve and the Serpent, nextcome a series of weird mythological creatures, andthen follow serried ranks of animals, fabulous andoth
The ivory workers of the middle ages . se animals may be compared with thoseon the diptych of Bourges, which are scatteredover the background in much the same way, butwith less defiance of perspective, as they are sup-posed to be leaping in the act of fighting. The object of much controversy is another fineEarthly Paradise carved on the back of an Areo-bindus diptych in the Louvre (No. 13). It isdivided into registers by irregular lines of herbage ;above are Adam and Eve and the Serpent, nextcome a series of weird mythological creatures, andthen follow serried ranks of animals, fabulous andotherwise. Molinier declares it cannot be laterthan the sixth century, and connects it with theBargello diptych, but there is a real difference inthe feeling and technique of the animals, and abizarre element, quite foreign to the matter-of-factand straightforward of ancient art. Inthe opinion of de Linas and Graeven, the carvingwas added in the early periods of the Italian Re-naissance, and the former points out a connection 40.
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