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 44
estroyed it in no. Although bronze doors were made by the Emperor Justinian for his great Church of Sta. Sophia in Constantinople, one at least of which is still remaining at the south end of the narthex, nothing of the sort was again attempted in the eastern capital until Staurachios executed the… … Fig. 3.—Bronze Doors, Temple of Romulus, Romeinquire whence he derived the idea for the work. He may 26 DINANDERIE have seen the bronze doors which Pope Adrian brought fromPerugia, and have made them his model ; but as they haveperished, we are unable to institute a comparison. The onlyother bronze…
