. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. ticof the travellers who have studied the monuments of Southern Italy,has some interesting remarks on these doors at Trani, from which Iventure to quote a passage. The doors of the cathedral of Tranimay be considered to be one of the most curious and most perfectexamples of the metal work of the twelfth century. If we examinethem carefully we shall hardly know which to admire the most, thecomplete design or the details ; the ingenuity of the invention orthe finish of the execution ; the immense va
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. ticof the travellers who have studied the monuments of Southern Italy,has some interesting remarks on these doors at Trani, from which Iventure to quote a passage. The doors of the cathedral of Tranimay be considered to be one of the most curious and most perfectexamples of the metal work of the twelfth century. If we examinethem carefully we shall hardly know which to admire the most, thecomplete design or the details ; the ingenuity of the invention orthe finish of the execution ; the immense variety of the subjectsor the naturalness and expressiveness of the figures. Whether westudy the larger figures in the panels or the smaller which enrich theborders, we find a certain life, a certain vivacity, and above all thattone of local color which brings before us, after the lapse of so manycenturies, the religious faith and the warlike habits of the ape of ^ Schulz, vol. i., p. 116, pis. XX., xxv.; Schnaase, vol. vii., p. 595; Mothes, p. 621; Sala-zaro, pi. 16. THE SOUTHERN ROMANESQUE 77. Fig. 2bJ. Truia. rortiou of Duois. ^ LItalic, vol. i., p. 211. St. Bernard and of Coeurde Lion. On the onehand, the figures of theencircling border, therichly decorated knock-ers, the finely modelledrosettes which separatethe panels, reveal theimagination of the art-ist. On the other, thecustoms and habits ofthought of that age liveagain in these episodes ofthe chase, these mountedarchers discharging theirarrows backward as theyride, and not less inthese real or fabulousbeasts to which the Bi-ble, the legends of thechurch, and the mysticpoetry of the time hadlent a sort of popularconsecration. ^ (See,also, Fig. 291.) The cathedral of Mon-reale has, in atMon-addition to the ®*^®doors of Barisanus, anequally fine example ofbronze work from awidely different source,in the doors of the greatcentral entrance of thewest front. These arethe work of the cele-brated Pisan artist, Bo-nanno, the m
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