Besides the Cross of Victory or Pelayo, and the Cross of Angels, interesting objects preserved at Oviedo are a small diptych presented by Bishop Don Gonzalo (A.
This diptych is 5 inches long by 7 wide: it is ornamented with ivory figures, stones, crystals and engraved gems.
A diptychwhich belongs to the same shrine may also be mentioned.
This was afterward incised in outline, and exhibited in low relief, as on an ivory diptych of date A.
On an ivory diptychin the Educational Museum at Toronto, Ca.
According to the names inscribed, bishops, the dead or the living, a diptych might be a diptycha episcoporum, diptycha mortuorum or diptycha vivorum.
The latter variety of diptych was inscribed with the magistrate's name and bore his portrait, and was issued to his friends and the public generally.
The diptych went by various names in the early church--mystical tablets, anniversary books, ecclesiastical matriculation registers or books of the living.
By various councils it was ordained that the name of the pope should always be inserted in the diptych list.
The names thus written were read from the ambo, in which the diptych was kept.
In course of time the list of the names swelled to such proportions that the space afforded by the diptych was insufficient.
A barbarian soldier wearing characteristic trousers (from a diptychof St. Paul, after Marriott).
Some of the enemies of Rome are shown on Trajan's column wearing nether garments of the kind most familiar to us, and our illustration is taken from the representation of a barbarian soldier carved on an ivory diptych of St. Paul.
A barbarian soldier wearing characteristic trousers (from a diptych of St. Paul, after Marriott) 78 80.
Although this valuable diptych was not made in Spain, but manifests Byzantine art in all its purity, it well deserves to be described.
There is also in the provincial museum of Burgos a handsome ivory diptych which was formerly at the convent of Santo Domingo de Silos.
And at the bed's head, like some jewel marvellously set, rested, in every noble home, the diptych or the triptych with its image of the Saviour or the Virgin Mary.
Among the ivory objects now preserved in Spain, and which were wrought by artists other than Mohammedan, none is more interesting or important than the consular diptych of Oviedo cathedral.
To cite one example only: Fouquet's diptych from Melun has been lost to France for ever, one portion of it being at Antwerp, another at Berlin, whilst the beautiful enamelled frame has disappeared altogether.
One portion of this diptych (the Madonna and Child) is now, as mentioned above, in the Antwerp Museum, whilst the other has found its way into the Kaiser Friedrich Collection at Berlin.
The beautifuldiptych in the Bargello, representing Adam in the Earthly Paradise, may easily have been originally intended for Orpheus, especially since Eve is absent!
In the Epistles of Symmachus, the writer says: "To my Lord and Prince I sent a diptych edged with gold.
The earliest diptych, however, is of the year 406, known as the Diptych of Probus, on which may be seen a bas-relief portrait of Emperor Honorius.
On the Diptych of Philoxenus is a Greek verse signifying, "I, Philoxenus, being Consul, offer this present to the wise Senate.
Some of them were quite ambitious in size; in the British Museum is a Diptych measuring over sixteen inches by five: the tusk from which this was made must have been almost unique in size.
A Diptych is an altar-piece composed of two divisions or leaves which are united by hinges, and close like a book.
Scarcely less attractive, and in some respects even more interesting, is the celebrated diptych associated with the name of Martin van Nieuwenhove.
The illustration given here is from the diptych of the Consul Areobrudus, and belongs to the year 506 (Fig.
At the same time, to take one example only--the diptych and triptych of Bishop Grandison in the British Museum--we have evidence that English ivory carvers were capable of rare excellence of design and workmanship.
According to some authorities the beautiful leaf ofdiptych in the Liverpool Museum (fig.
Amongst the most striking the earliest is the very celebrated leaf of a diptych in the British Museum representing an archangel (fig.
Christianity; or, if the Monza diptych represents, as some think, the Consul Stilicon, then we may refer back six years earlier.
Leaf of diptych showing combats with stags; in the Liverpool Museum.
Amongst the finest may be cited the leaf with the combats with stags at Liverpool, the diptych of Probianus at Berlin and the two leaves, one of Anastasius, the other of Orestes, in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
As the Consul on his elevation sent one to his friends to remind them of his exaltation, so, on a death in the congregation, a diptych was sent to the priest as a reminder of the dead who desired the prayers of the faithful.
