A description of the ivories, ancient & mediaeval, in the South Kensington museum (1872)
South Kensington Museum, Maskell, William, 1814?-1890 · London, Chapman & Hall · leaf 107
Preface. xcv colouring are still visible on many examples. The robes and vestments were painted red or blue, with borders of a different colour and often diapered with patterns in gold. The interesting illustration, below, of a painter at work upon a statuette, an illumination in a French… … people thought in for- mer days, gained an improved effect by such additional help, and certainly the use of colour was an attempt to give a more real appearance and more true to nature. The mediaeval artist could moreover (if he had known the fact) have appealed to the best period of the Greek…
South Kensington Museum · Ivories · Art objects
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