Further Notes on a Twelfth-Century Bishop's Mitre in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Eleanor B. Sachs examines a figure woven in purple, gold and pink threads on the gold brow band of a twelfth-century bishop's mitre in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The figure is a frontal, orant human flanked by profile animals. She compares it with Alexander's Celestial Journey, Daniel in the lions' den, Coptic Helios/Ascension textiles, Elijah, and Scylla and Charybdis. She concludes that Alexander's Journey is the most likely reading but that the figure remains a puzzle. The article has 18 endnotes and 15 figures: photographs of the mitre and comparative sculptures, mosaics, enamels, ivories and a Coptic tapestry.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1979
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 22
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