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DOI Artikel:Cutler, Anthony: Mistaken novelty: problems of ivory carving in the Christian East (12th and 13th centuries) =
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A. CUTLER, "PROBLEMS OF IVORY CARVING IN THE CHRISTIAN EAST (12TH AND 13TH CENTURIES)" 277
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salient figure of the crucified and the cross that sustains him remain intact. This is because
they are supported by struts, one still present behind the sun disk, the other lost, as is
evidenced by the hole in the material where the moon has disappeared. While both celes-
tial bodies, attached in this way, are preserved on the Nativity leaf of the Warsaw diptych,
the same sort of device is evidently missing from above the halo of Christ in the Baptism
(ill. 10) on the other leaf where it would have carried the hand of God or the descending
dove (or both). Struts of this sort were employed in the Middle Byzantine period; for
example, behind the hands of the deeply undercut Christ in a Crucifixion in the Metropoli-
tan Museum (ill. 7).^
^ For further examples, see: pp. 71-7 and ill. 31.
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salient figure of the crucified and the cross that sustains him remain intact. This is because
they are supported by struts, one still present behind the sun disk, the other lost, as is
evidenced by the hole in the material where the moon has disappeared. While both celes-
tial bodies, attached in this way, are preserved on the Nativity leaf of the Warsaw diptych,
the same sort of device is evidently missing from above the halo of Christ in the Baptism
(ill. 10) on the other leaf where it would have carried the hand of God or the descending
dove (or both). Struts of this sort were employed in the Middle Byzantine period; for
example, behind the hands of the deeply undercut Christ in a Crucifixion in the Metropoli-
tan Museum (ill. 7).^
^ For further examples, see: pp. 71-7 and ill. 31.