Magdeburg Antependium
ivory carving
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style of religious art
- In Ottonian art
…ivory plaques of the “Magdeburg Antependium” (c. 970), carvings have a characteristic restraint and the narrative is conveyed through simple gestures and enlivened by an original kind of decoration such as that in the strongly patterned background. An important development in Ottonian art was that of large-scale sculpture. Stone…
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