Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze (1910) (14753340466)

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Title: Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Perry, John Tavenor, 1842-1915
Subjects: Copper Brasses Bronzes Metal-work Art, Medieval
Publisher: London : G. Allen & Sons
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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into twenty-fourpanels, the top row having raised crosses like those of Atraniand the lowest row some small ornaments, also in relief; butthe rest of the panels are decorated with saints and angels inniello ; while across the rail, between the third and fourth tier ofpanels, are eight little lions heads with rings in their mouths, anarrangement identical with that of San Michele on Monte SantAngelo. It may be convenient to mention here, in connectionwith these doors of S. Marks, that the outside open-work gateswere cast in 1300 by an Italian named Bertuccius. With the bronze doors of the Tomb of Bohemond at Canosawe come to surer ground, since they are signed by their founder,Ruggerio of Melfi. Whether they have undergone any altera-tion it is difficult to say, but the leaves do not match in design,and one is wider than the other; and while one has been castin a single piece, the other is in four pieces. They are ex-tremely interesting, as the right leaf bears on the panels in niello
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Plate XLEKOXZE DOOKS, AEROXA BRONZE DOORS 189 portraits of the sons and grandsons of Robert Guiscard, Bohe-monds father. An inscription on the doors reads thus :— GVISCARDI CONIVX ABERADA HAEC CONDITVR ARCASI GENITVM QVAERIS HVNC CANVSINVM HABET. There are two pairs of doors in the Duomo of Troja andone pair in that of Benevento, which not only show no trace ofGreek influence, but which have all the rugged richness ofLombardic decoration. The doors of Troja are known to bethe work of Oderisius of Benevento ; those on the west frontbeing cast in 1119, but restored and added to in 1573, and subse-quently much tampered with ; and those of the south doorwaywere cast in 1127. The figures on the west doors include oneof Oderisius himself, and are, with the numerous heads of beastsand dragons which appear on the panels, coarse and grotesque,while some of the figures are executed in red niello ; and thedoors are inscribed with the names of the donor and founder,and their respective dates. I

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