History of mediæval art . , gold coins bearing the por-trait of the Emperor upon the obverse,and the imperial eagle upon the re-verse, which were issued in Brindisiand Messina, and by their beauty andclassic character so delighted the Em-peror that in the year 1221 he pre-sented the crown estate of Viaregio,near Lucca, to the superintendent ofthe mint, Pagano Balduino. The stat-ues and busts with which Frederick,in 1240, ornamented the abutment ofthe bridge over the Volturno, near Capua, bear the same closerelation to the antique; of these the badly weathered torso ofthe statue of the Emperor,
History of mediæval art . , gold coins bearing the por-trait of the Emperor upon the obverse,and the imperial eagle upon the re-verse, which were issued in Brindisiand Messina, and by their beauty andclassic character so delighted the Em-peror that in the year 1221 he pre-sented the crown estate of Viaregio,near Lucca, to the superintendent ofthe mint, Pagano Balduino. The stat-ues and busts with which Frederick,in 1240, ornamented the abutment ofthe bridge over the Volturno, near Capua, bear the same closerelation to the antique; of these the badly weathered torso ofthe statue of the Emperor, the head of the allegorical figure ofCapua Imperialis, and the two busts, one designated as that of theChancellor Pietro delle Vigne {Fig. 287), the other as that of theChief-justice Taddeo da Sessa, are now preserved in the Museumof Capua. With these busts may also be classed the female headupon the pulpit of the Cathedral of Ravello, dating to A. D. 1272,which has, without doubt erroneously, been considered as the por-. iitii^iiaiiaiiliiiiSffigM:Fig. 286.—Relief from the Pieve ofPonte alio Spino. ITALY. 469 trait of the foundress Sigelgaita Rufolo {Fig. 288); and also the fe-male bust from Scala near Amalfi, now in the Museum of Berlin. Inall these works there was, together with a direct conformity to classicmodels, a technical perfection so remarkable as almost to make themappear as anachronisms, the more so as other productions of LowerItaly dating to this period are different and decidedly inferior. It istherefore scarcely possible to ascribe these sculptures to the Pere-grinus who executed the Easter candlestick and the choir screen ofSessa. The artist of the classic sculptures at Capua may with more
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