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Title: European enamels
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Cunynghame, Henry H (Henry Hardinge), Sir, 1848-1935
Subjects: Enamel and enameling
Publisher: London : Methuen
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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, as far as effect was concerned, Champ-lev6 work was felt to be more suitable. As the twelfth century progressed, a totally newarchitectural movement took place in Germany,owing to the introduction from France of Gothicarchitecture. For a time, of course, it was tingedwith Romanesque influences, but by the yeara.d. 1250 the Romanesque style was dead, andwith it died the German mediaeval school of en-amelling. It is, of course, impossible to give a descriptionor even a list of all the German enamels whichremain of the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth cen-turies. All that can be done is to select a fewtypical specimens for detailed description. The first piece of German enamelling that deservesnotice is the shrine of the Magi, in the cathedraltreasury at Cologne. This large work is six feetlong and 4f feet high, and was executed in thethirteenth century. It contains the bodies of theMagi, of which only the heads can be seen in thelower part, and in the upper the relics of SS. Felix,70
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SHRINE OF ST. ARNO, SIEGBURG MEDIEVAL ENAMELS Naebor, and Gregory of Spoleto. The relics of theMagi were buried in Constantinople by St. Helena.Thence, in a.d. 324, they were brought to Milan.In 1162 Frederick Barbarossa took Milan by storm,and these precious relics, being part of his plunder,he presented to the Archbishop of Cologne. Theywere received in a scene of public rejoicing, and ashrine was prepared to contain them. This mag-nificent work has fortunately escaped plunder. It ispure Romanesque in design and resembles a Romanbasilica. At one end is a figure of the Virgin andChild with the three wise men of the East modelledin repousse work. To these have been added thefigure of the Emperor Otto IV. On the other sideis the baptism of Christ. Above these is a figure of our Lord with theBook of Life. At the other end is the Crucifixion ofChrist with the prophet Jeremiah, the foreteller ofthe Passion. Over them is the Archbishop ofCologne. The sides are occupied by the twelveprophet

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