The Ivory Workers of the Middle Ages

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Author: Cust Anna Maria

Title: The Ivory Workers of the Middle Ages

Release Date: 2019-01-22

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HANDBOOKS OF THE GREAT CRAFTSMEN.

Illustrated Monographs, Biographical and Critical, on the Great Craftsmen
and Workers of Ancient and Modern Times.

Edited by G. C. Williamson, Litt.D.
Imperial 16mo, with numerous Illustrations,
5s. net each.

First Volumes of the Series

THE PAVEMENT MASTERS OF SIENA.
By R. H. Hobart Cust, M.A.

PETER VISCHER.
By Cecil Headlam, B.A.

THE IVORY WORKERS OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
By A. M. Cust.

Others to follow.

LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.

DOSSETTER PHOTO. [BRITISH MUSEUM
1. LEAF OF A DIPTYCH
Byzantine, fifth century

[See p. 55.]

THE IVORY WORKERS
OF THE
MIDDLE AGES

BY
A. M. CUST

LONDON
GEORGE BELL AND SONS
1902

CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO.[Pg vii]

TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.[Pg viii]

TO MY DEAR FATHER
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK.[Pg ix]

PREFACE

This little book can do no more than humblytouch the fringe of a large subject; but if it leads the reader to afurther study of this beautiful craft, it will have amply fulfilledits duty.

I must express my deep obligation to themagnificent volume on ivories by M. Emile Molinier, whose masterlyarrangement of a very fragmentary and scattered subject is a model oflucidity; and also to Dr. Hans Graeven, whose scholarly researchesand excellent photographs are indispensable for a real study of thecraft.

A. M. Cust.

December, 1901.[Pg x]

[Pg xi]

CONTENTS

			PAGE
List of Illustrations			xiii
Bibliography			xvii
CHAPTER I.
Consular and other Secular Diptychs			1
CHAPTER II.
Latin and Byzantine Ivories			37
	I.	Latin and Latino-Byzantine and
		the Early Byzantine Ivories	37
	II.	Byzantine Caskets	75
	III.	The Byzantine Renaissance	84
CHAPTER III.
Lombardic, Anglo-Saxon, Carlovingian
and German Ivories			96
	I.	Lombard Ivory Carvings	96
	II.	Anglo-Saxon Ivory Carvings	99
	III.	The Carlovingian Renaissance	106
	IV.	German Ivory Carving in the time
		of the Ottos	118 [Pg xii]
CHAPTER IV.
Romanesque and Gothic Ivories			129
List of Diptychs			157
List of Places where Important Examples
of Ivories can be found			165
Index			167

[Pg xiii]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FIG.		PAGE
1.	An Angel. Leaf of a Diptych.
	Fifth century. Byzantine
	British Museum, London	Frontispiece
2.	Second Leaf of the Diptych of Probianus,
	Vice-Prefect of Rome. End of fourth century
	Berlin Library	8
3.	First Leaf of the Diptych of Probus,
	Consul at Rome, 406 A.D.
	Duomo, Aosta	9
4.	First Leaf of the Diptych of Orestes,
	Consul at Rome, 530 A.D.
	Victoria and Albert Museum, London	14
5.	Leaf of the Diptych of Amalasuntha(?)
	Sixth Century. Italian
	Bargello, Florence	30
6.	Adam in the Terrestrial Paradise, and Scenes
	from the Life of St. Paul.
	Leaves of a Diptych. Fifth century. Italian
	Bargello, Florence	41
7 & 8.	Two Plaques, The Crucifixion and Christ leaving
	the Prætorium.
	Fifth century. Italian
	British Museum	46, 47
9.	Pyx with the Scene of Christ healing the Paralytic.
	Sixth century. Italo-Byzantine
	Musée de Cluny, Paris	51
10.	Cover of a Book of the Gospels
	(from S. Michele di Murano). Sixth century. Italo-Byzantine
	Ravenna Museum	53
11.	Cover of a Book of the Gospels, with three scenes from
	the