Catalogue of mediæval & later antiquities contained in the Mayer Museum, including the Mather collection of miniatures and medals relating to the Bonaparte family . not uncommon inthis style of art. The great tall-ness of proportion, as well as theexecution, seems to indicate a some-what late period in Byzantine artfor this figure. Fejervdry Catalogue, No. 44. Mas-kell, Appx., p. 171, No. II. Thiscarving is fixed on to a modernivory rectangular background. figure 8|in. 8014 29. Panel, in ivory. Byzantine,7 th or Sth century. The Cruci-fixion and Resurrection. A labelof classical shape is
Catalogue of mediæval & later antiquities contained in the Mayer Museum, including the Mather collection of miniatures and medals relating to the Bonaparte family . not uncommon inthis style of art. The great tall-ness of proportion, as well as theexecution, seems to indicate a some-what late period in Byzantine artfor this figure. Fejervdry Catalogue, No. 44. Mas-kell, Appx., p. 171, No. II. Thiscarving is fixed on to a modernivory rectangular background. figure 8|in. 8014 29. Panel, in ivory. Byzantine,7 th or Sth century. The Cruci-fixion and Resurrection. A labelof classical shape is appendedto the cross, inscribed— ihsnazaren rex ivdaeorvm. Oneither side of the cross standthe spear and sponge bearers, invery vigorous attitudes, with theirbacks turned towards the spectators,whilst at the sides, on raised eleva-tions, stand the Virgin, in well-expressed attitude of grief, and At the top, in the angles,are represented the sun and moon,under the forms of the busts of Soland Luna, with the crescent in theclouds. (Westwood.) On the lower half is the Resur-rection ; the empty tomb of ourLord is placed under a light cupola, Plate 28. 79 Plate VII.
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