Veroli Casket
The Veroli Casket is an ivory and metal casket, made in Constantinople (now Istanbul) in the late tenth or early eleventh century, and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. It is thought to have been made for a person close to the Imperial Court of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, and may have been used to hold scent bottles or jewellery. It was later kept in the Cathedral Treasury at Veroli, south east of Rome, until 1861. As the Empire had been Christianised for centuries, these pagan motifs presumably represent a revived taste for classical style and imagery.
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Veroli Casket
The Veroli Casket is an ivory and metal casket, made in Constantinople (now Istanbul) in the late tenth or early eleventh century, and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. It is thought to have been made for a person close to the Imperial Court of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, and may have been used to hold scent bottles or jewellery. It was later kept in the Cathedral Treasury at Veroli, south east of Rome, until 1861. As the Empire had been Christianised for centuries, these pagan motifs presumably represent a revived taste for classical style and imagery.
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Lo scrigno di Veroli è un cont ...... ome osservò Sir Kenneth Clark.
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The Veroli Casket is an ivory ...... medieval eclipse of the nude.
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Constantinople, 900–1000 AD
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Victoria and Albert Museum Room 8
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Wood overlaid with carved ivory and bone plaques with traces of polychrome and gilding
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Height: 11.5 cm
Length: 40.3 cm
Weight: 1.72 kg
Width: 15.5-16 cm
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Lo scrigno di Veroli è un cont ...... sud-est di Roma, fino al 1861.
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The Veroli Casket is an ivory ...... r classical style and imagery.
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Scrigno di Veroli
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Veroli Casket
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Veroli-Kästchen
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