History of mediæval art . Fig. 278.—Ambo in the Choir of the Minster ofAix-la-Chapelle. GERMANY. 457 among them Eilbert of Cologne, who executed the portable altar inthe private treasury of the House of Hanover; Nicolaus of Verdun,the designer of the antependium in Klosterneuburg, and of the reli-quary of Tournai; and Henricus Custos of Siegburg, the artist ofthe shrine of Anno in Siegburg near Bonn. Niello, an engraving oflines upon a combination of metals on a flat surface, bearing somerelation to the Small champleve, seems to have been first employedin the portable altar of the treasury of
History of mediæval art . Fig. 278.—Ambo in the Choir of the Minster ofAix-la-Chapelle. GERMANY. 457 among them Eilbert of Cologne, who executed the portable altar inthe private treasury of the House of Hanover; Nicolaus of Verdun,the designer of the antependium in Klosterneuburg, and of the reli-quary of Tournai; and Henricus Custos of Siegburg, the artist ofthe shrine of Anno in Siegburg near Bonn. Niello, an engraving oflines upon a combination of metals on a flat surface, bearing somerelation to the Small champleve, seems to have been first employedin the portable altar of the treasury of the Cathedral of Paderborn,probably consecrated by Bishop Henry II. The chief opportunities for magnificent work in gold decoratedwith enamel and jewels were offered by the reliquaries. These weregenerally treated after the manner of the early Christian sarcophagi,. Fig. 279.—Shrine of Charlemagne in the Minster of Aix-la-Chapelle. with reminiscences, more or less distinct, of the columnar arcadesand gables of the basilicas,—the surfaces of the sides and lids beingcovered by tablets in relief, surrounded by ornamented frames inthe same way as were the doors and antependiums. The finestworks of the kind are the Shrine of the Magi in the Cathedral ofCologne, dating to 1198, the Shrine of Charlemagne in the Minsterof Aix-la-Chapelle {Fig. 279), referable to the first half of the thir-teenth century, and the shrine above the former coronation altar inthe same church, which is similar to the last-mentioned examplejbut of somewhat later date. The first-mentioned reliquary imitatesjthe exterior of a three-aisled basilica in the elevation of the centralportion above the lower lean-to roofs of the sides, while the arcades 458 SCULPTURE OF THE ROMANIC EPOCH. in relief on the sides and fronts appear as a reminiscence of the in-terior memberment. The two
Size: 2324px × 1075px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookpublishernewyorkharperbros
