UNKNOWN GOLDSMITH, German
(active around 1050 in Hildesheim)

Candelabrum

c. 1050
Bronze
Cathedral, Hildesheim

Hildesheim Cathedral has a famous collection of early medieval art treasures, which include bronze doors carved with biblical scenes, a bronze column with scenes from the life of Christ, and two grand candelabra.

The picture shows one of the candelabra representing the gates of the New Jerusalem. In medieval imagination, Heaven was seen as a city.