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Title	Diptych leaf of Consul Areobindus, from Constantinople (Turkey).
Date	506
Cultural Context	Roman Byzantine Turkish
Style/Period	Byzantine
Theme	Sculpture (visual work) Reliefs (sculptures) Diptychs Consular diptychs Commemoratives Panels (ornament areas) Figurative art Figures (representations) Front views Portraits Busts Half figures Men (male humans) Consuls Public officers Magistrates Officers (administrators) Administrators Politicians Costume (mode of fashion) Hairstyles Scepters Ceremonial objects Symbolism (artistic concept) Symbols Monograms Medallions (ornament areas) Lozenges Foliation (pattern) Scrolling foliage Patterns (design elements)
Subject	Sculpture Diptychs Commemorations Portraits Men Consuls Government officials Politicians People associated with politics & government Clothing & dress Hairstyles Scepters Ceremonial objects Symbols Monograms Medallions (Ornament areas) Patterns (Design elements)
Description	"The Louvre diptych was produced in 506 A.D., on the occasion of the consulate of Areobindus. […] An exceptionally high number of diptychs and panels in his name remain: two complete diptychs and five individual panels. […] The Areobindus panels correspond to three iconographic types. The first depicts the consul presiding over circus games. The second, which includes the Louvre diptych, features a bust of the Consul within a medallion. The third features two horns of plenty crossed over a basket spilling over with fruit and is represented by a single panel in the Lucca cathedral. […] Most of the other diptychs dating from the sixth century are of the first two iconographic types, which have the most symbols of the consular office. Those diptychs that represent the consul always portray him - as is the case here - wearing the trabea picta. In one hand he holds the two essential signs of his office, the scepter and the mappa, a piece of cloth consuls waved to signal the beginning of the circus games […]. On the Louvre diptych, the medallion featuring the consul's bust sits in the center of a large lozenge formed by branches with stylized leaves that evoke, in particular, the same ornaments used in early sixth-century sculpture in Constantinople. Above and below the medallion, the consul's monogram, in Greek lettering, is carved in high relief." (Excerpt from catalogue entry by Jannic Durand, p. 67). Gift 1951, formerly in the Settala collection in Milan (1759), the Trivulzio collection (1773), the Possenti collection in Fabriano, the Lord Crawford collection in Rome (1892), the Trivulzio collection in Milan (1929), the Montesquiou-Fezensac collection (1934) (DEPARTMENT OF DECORATIVE ARTS, INV. OA 9525)
Material	Elephant ivory Ivory (tooth component)
Measurements	H: 13 3/8 in (34 cm); W: 4 5/8 in (11.9 cm); D: 3 1/2 in (9 cm)
Technique	Sculpting Carving (processes) Relief (sculpture techniques)
Inscription	Above and below the medallion, the consul's monogram, in Greek lettering, is carved in high relief.
Work Type	Sculpture Diptychs Reliefs (sculptures)
Repository	Musee du Louvre (Paris, France)
Source	Giroire, Cecile, and Daniel Roger. Roman Art from the Louvre. New York: American Federation of Arts in assoc. with Hudson Hills Press, 2007. (p.[66], cat.13).
Rights	Photographs of the works in the exhibition reproduced in Giroire courtesy: Copyright © 2007 Musee du Louvre and the American Federation of Arts/Anne Chauvet, Daniel Lebee, and Carine De Ambrosis.
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format	image/jpeg
Digital File Name	VRC 762-04.jpg
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