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Londra, Victoria & Albert Museum. Capsella da Werden

Ivory panels of a casket with the Magi seeing the Star, the Nativity and the Adoration of the Magi. The iconography seems to copy early Christian models, perhaps of the 5th century.

  • Rhine area workshop
  • Mary, Joseph and the new-born Christ (Nativity)
  • the story of the three Wise Men (kings or Magi) (Matthew 2:1-12)
  • Byzantine art
  • Archaeology
  • Byzantine (culture and style)
  • caskets (personal gear)
  • ivory (material)