The beginnings of Gothic ivory sculpture: recent discoveries in a group of Danish ivories
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article argues that a number of ivories in Denmark - exquisite representatives of the ‘year 1200 style’- are the work of a French or at least French-managed team of imagiers who would have been summoned to the country c.1220 and who took a leading role in gothicizing Danish polychrome wooden sculpture. Such a French (and not English) connection exemplifies well-attested contacts between elites of the two kingdoms. Two new discoveries are here brought forward as evidence: first, an Adoration group that can be linked to the learned Archbishop Anders Sunesen of Lund, who studied theology and philosophy in Paris, as well as law at Bologna and Oxford. Secondly, the enigmatic Herlufsholm crucifix figure, which can be linked persuasively to a huge wooden crucifixion group (mostly burned in 1806) formerly in Roskilde Cathedral, where both written and stylistic evidence as well as the cathedral architecture itself speaks for a marked French impulse in the first quarter of the thirteenth century.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".