. Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze . ublius Cincius Calvius. There can be but little doubt thatthe bronze wolf, if wolf it be, and nota bear, as suggested by Dr. Bock inhis Das Heilighthum zu Aachen, wasintended to be a reproduction at leastof the idea of the celebrated wolf ofthe Capitol, although its attitude isquite different. In the time of Charlemagne this curiousfigure, which had not then, perhaps, received the additionof the twin boys, was preserved in the Lateran Palace ; andas it was even at that time regarded as the symbol of Rome
. Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze . ublius Cincius Calvius. There can be but little doubt thatthe bronze wolf, if wolf it be, and nota bear, as suggested by Dr. Bock inhis Das Heilighthum zu Aachen, wasintended to be a reproduction at leastof the idea of the celebrated wolf ofthe Capitol, although its attitude isquite different. In the time of Charlemagne this curiousfigure, which had not then, perhaps, received the additionof the twin boys, was preserved in the Lateran Palace ; andas it was even at that time regarded as the symbol of Rome,we can quite understand how it was the newly crowned Emperorof the West desired to erect this mark of his power in hisnorthern capital. The classic influence which Charlemagnes bronze work atAix-la-Chapelle exercised on the metal designers of Germanywas perceptible two centuries later in the revival under BishopBernward at Hildesheim ; but before tracing this further,we must first consider the influence of the native school ofbronze workers in Northern Europe, which was far from being. Fig. 6.—PiNE-CoNE, Rome 30 DINANDERIE extinguished, and presently made itself more powerfully feltthan the exotic ideas introduced from Rome. The Celtic inhabitants of Gaul were well acquainted withthe art of making bronze ornaments before the Roman occu-pation, and such work continued to be carried on after thePrankish Conquest, and showed but little alteration in its maincharacteristics. But the workers had learned from Rome theidea of manufacturing more important articles ; and we havein the so-called Chair of Dagobert (Plate II.) evidence that atthat date some classic influence was still apparent. It has beenassumed by some, however, that the chief part of this object,which is in the form of a curule chair, was actually Romanwork ; while others attribute it to S. Eloy, Dagoberts Masterof the Mint, the work having been completed in the twelfthcentury by Abbot Suger. The bronze work, howeve
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