medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
apologies for cross-posting
I have just posted to my online archive 123 new photos from the Louvre.
You can access them most easily from the Paris location page:
http://www.KornbluthPhoto.com/Paris.html
The Louvre now has four chronological pages. There is new material on
all four. Probably of most interest to members of these lists will be
the early medieval ivories (including the Barberini Diptych, and the
unusual Carolingian Meeting of Abner and Joab) and a fair amount of
twelfth-century architectural sculpture. There are also several works
from the Ancient Near East, including a woman giving birth (Bactrian,
lapis lazuli), and among the later objects the alabaster Death from the
Cemetery of the Innocents in Paris (c.1530).
A few questions came up as I was indexing, and I would be interested in
your thoughts.
On the Carolingian ivory with the Arrest of Christ (c.870), the top
register is apparently Christ gesturing and the soldiers who have come
to arrest him falling over (John 18). Does anyone know other early
images of that particular part of the narrative, or another equally
densely illustrated Arrest cycle?
Can anyone tell me about the inhabited twisted columns from Coulombs (C12)?
Does anyone know other copper-on-wood effigies like that of Blanche de
Champagne (early C15)? I am much more used to the stone versions.
As always, please let me know about any errors you notice.
best,
Genevra
home page: http://www.kornbluthphoto.com
archive index: http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/archive-1.html
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