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unusual facts about Ivory carving


Ivory carving

Kholmogory has been for centuries a centre for the Russian style of carving, once in mammoth ivory but now mostly in bone.



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Simone Martini

Simone's art owes much to French manuscript illumination and ivory carving: examples of such art were brought to Siena in the fourteenth century by means of the Via Francigena, a main pilgrimage and trade route from Northern Europe to Rome.