Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze (1910)
Perry, John Tavenor, 1842-1915 · London : G. Allen & Sons · leaf 302
e conventionalised form ofa lions mask, and the earliest ones most nearly approximate,as a rule, to a natural appearance. The heads on the doors ofAix-la-Chapelle, surrounded with wreaths of acanthus, whichsuggest a Byzantine or Lombardic influence, are perhaps,however, not quite so natural as the… … Fig. 61.—Sanctuary Ring, Mainz Dom 200 DINANDERIE friend and companion of Otho II. and Otho III., as well as ofBishop Bernward. They are generally believed to have beenbrought from the ruined Liebfrauenkirche, which was erected bythe archbishop, and afterwards placed in the Dom ; but Lassaulx,as…
