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The ivory's history between then and 1625 is unknown – in that year it was offered by the leading antiquary Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc to the Papal legate Cardinal Francesco Barberini in Aix-en-Provence, becoming part of the Barberini collection in Rome. Peiresc mentions it specifically in a letter to his friend Palamède de Vallavez ...
Barberini Ivory on display at the Louvre. Panel of a possible imperial diptych representing the empress Ariadne, Bargello.. In Late Antiquity, an imperial diptych is a theoretical type of ivory diptych, made up of two leaves of five panels each and each with a central panel representing the emperor or empress.
Sculpture (Ivory) Apollo Sauroctonos (Apollo Lizard-killer) Sculpture (Roman) Marcellus as Hermes Logios: Sculpture (Roman) Ship of Fools: Painting Hieronymus Bosch: Portrait of a Princess: Painting Pisanello: Madonna della Vittoria: Painting Andrea Mantegna: Triumph of the Virtues: Painting Andrea Mantegna: St. Sebastian: Painting Andrea Mantegna
Thanks to more than 150 artworks from their 4,000-piece collection, the Baroque institution has never looked fresher.
The panel is the largest single piece of carved Byzantine ivory that survives, [1] at 42.9 × 14.3 cm (16 7/8 × 5 5/8 in). [2] It is, along with the Barberini ivory , one of two important surviving 6th-century Byzantine ivories attributed to the imperial workshops of Constantinople under Justinian, [ 3 ] although the attribution is mostly ...
Since much greater numbers of ivories survive than panel paintings from the period, they are very important for the history of Macedonian art. All sides of the triptych are fully carved, with more saints on the outsides of the side leaves, and an elaborate decorative scheme on the back of the central leaf. The ivory's early history is unrecorded.
Ivory carving was used in many luxury Byzantine sculptures including diptychs such as that showing the Adoration of the Magi and the Barberini Diptych, representing Justinian as Holy Emperor. The throne is the largest single Late Antique work of art made of ivory, and derives attraction from its simple and proportionate lines along with its ...
Last December a Cartier Art Deco brooch estimated to sell for $100,000 to $150,000 went for almost $1.4 million at Christie’s New York. The piece—of natural pearl, tourmaline, ruby, onyx, and ...