03-24-2012, 07:03 AM
Several of the later period depictions appear to be pleated. Specifically when looking at the Byzantine empire. The Barberini Ivory is a good example:
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"This was the age of heroes, some legendary, some historical . . . the misty borderland of history where fact and legend mingle."
- R. Ewart Oakeshott
- R. Ewart Oakeshott