Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze . as-the-Pilgrim at Trani weremade for Sergio Muscetola in 1175, and are peculiar amongbronze doors in that they have a semicircular head to fit thestonework of the Romanesque arch of the doorway in which theyare placed. The panels are decorated in low relief with figuresof Christ and the Apostles and scenes from Gospel history, andform, as it were, a trial piece for the nobler work which patronand artist united to produce at Ravello. The doors of the Duomo of Ravello (Plate XLL), which as aninscription in s
Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze . as-the-Pilgrim at Trani weremade for Sergio Muscetola in 1175, and are peculiar amongbronze doors in that they have a semicircular head to fit thestonework of the Romanesque arch of the doorway in which theyare placed. The panels are decorated in low relief with figuresof Christ and the Apostles and scenes from Gospel history, andform, as it were, a trial piece for the nobler work which patronand artist united to produce at Ravello. The doors of the Duomo of Ravello (Plate XLL), which as aninscription in silver niello, of which we give a sketch of a portion(Fig. 60), occupying one of the panels, informs us, were erectedin 1179 by the same Sergio Muscetola and his wife Sigelgaita,are framed up in fifty-four panels bolted to the backing, andwith the joints covered by a broad band of ornament of inter-lacing circles also framed in panels, making eighty panels to thedoors in all. The iconography is somewhat difficult to follow,although each of the saints represented has his name inscribed. Plate XLIBRONZE DOORS, RAVELLO BRONZE DOORS 191 in silver niello on the background of the panel, and most of thesubjects, but not all, are repeated on each separate leaf. Thecentre panel on each side has at the top our Saviour enthronedwithin a vesica piscis in the act of blessing, and with theevangelistic symbols at the angles ; and the panels on each sidebear angels in the act of adoration. Immediately below thecentre occurs the Deposition from the Cross, and below thatagain the Entombment, and the remaining panels of the four
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