Ivory carving - Wikipedia
Ivory carving is the carving of ivory, that is to say animal tooth or tusk, generally by using sharp cutting tools, either mechanically or manually. Objects carved in ivory are often called "ivories".
Ivory carving | Ancient Art Form & Techniques | Britannica
ivory carving, the carving or shaping of ivory into sculptures, ornaments, and decorative or utilitarian articles. Elephant tusks have been the main source of ivory used for such carvings, although the tusks of walrus and other ivory-bearing mammals have also been worked.
Ivory: Significance and Protection - National Museum of African Art
Ivory is the hard, white material from the tusks and teeth of elephants, hippopotami, walruses, warthogs, sperm whales and narwhals, as well as now extinct mammoths and mastodons. This resource focuses specifically on elephant ivory, which is the most popular and highly valued of …
Byzantine Ivories | Essay - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The riches of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia poured into the city’s warehouses, to be either sold or transformed by local artists into works of art. One of the most sought after products was ivory, the majority of which arrived via Egypt from sources in East Africa.
Ivory and Boxwood Carvings, 1450–1800 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Elephant tusk ivory has been prized since antiquity for the creation of small sculptures. Responsive to the cutting of fine detail, it enables carvers to achieve great artistic and emotional expressiveness in a highly compressed format.
Ivory Carving in the Gothic Era, Thirteenth–Fifteenth Centuries
The supply of elephant tusks dwindled in the twelfth century, but when ivory reappeared in northern Europe in the mid-thirteenth century, artists and patrons quickly renewed the art of ivory carving.
Ivory - Wikipedia
Both the Greek and Roman civilizations practiced ivory carving to make large quantities of high value works of art, precious religious objects, and decorative boxes for costly objects. Ivory was often used to form the white of the eyes of statues.
Ivory Carving: History, Characteristics of Ivories
Ivory Carving (35,000 BCE - Present): Types of Ivory Sculpture: Reliefs, Plaques, Famous Ivories, Scrimshaw Engraving.
Art conservation and restoration - Ivory, Paintings, Preservation ...
Ivory, especially in thin layers, responds with dimensional changes to fluctuations in the moisture content of the air. Miniature paintings on ivory are particularly vulnerable, expanding and contracting across the grain in a manner similar to paintings …
Ivory carving - East Asian, Sculpture, Art | Britannica
Ivory carving is one of China’s oldest arts, and examples of skillfully carved ivory have been found in the tombs of the Shang dynasty (c. 16th century–1046 bce) kings; these pieces are so well designed and executed that they suggest a long previous development, probably going back to prehistoric times.