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Ivory carving has a special importance to the medieval art of Europe because of this, and in particular for Byzantine art as so little monumental sculpture was produced or has survived. [ 1 ] As the elephant and other ivory-producing species have become endangered , largely because of hunting for ivory, CITES and national legislation in most ...
The plaques all measure nearly 13 cm high and 12 cm wide. They are in the unusual form of framed scenes combining relief figures with an openwork background. The backgrounds have, depending on the scene depicted, foliage, checkerboard or cross patterns, or, as in the Visitation, an architectural setting behind the figures.
The Arabic inscription lining the lid of the Ivory Pyxis reads as follows: “The blessing of Allah upon the Imam, the servant of Allah, al-Hakam II al-Mustansir billah, Commander of the Faithful. This is what he ordered to be made for the noble lady, the mother of Abd al-Rahman under the direction of Durri al-Saghir in the year 353 [964 AD]”.
The identification is complicated by the fact that the emperor shown is not necessarily the reigning emperor at the date when the ivory was produced. Thus the dating of the ivory is undeniably a useful indication in identifying the emperor but it is not conclusive in that regard.
The Virgin and Child from the Sainte-Chapelle is an ivory sculpture probably created in the 1260s, currently in the possession of the Louvre Museum in Paris.The museum itself describes it as "unquestionably the most beautiful piece of ronde-bosse [in the round] ivory carving ever made", [1] and the finest individual work of art in the wave of ivory sculpture coming out of Paris in the 13th and ...
Identification 1954,0508.1 The Nimrud ivories are a large group of small carved ivory plaques and figures dating from the 9th to the 7th centuries BC that were excavated from the Assyrian city of Nimrud (in modern Ninawa in Iraq ) during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Works of art created from ivory, a hard, white material from the tusks and teeth of animals of any species. See also Category:Bone carvings . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ivory sculptures .
The earliest documentation of the ivories was in the inventories of the Salerno Cathedral during the early sixteenth century. [1] A lack of further written sources causes debate over when and where the ivories were carved, who commissioned them, the arrangement of the panels, and the geographical and cultural origins of the artists. [1]