PRE-ROMANESQUE SCULPTOR, German
(active 790s in Aachen)

Door-handle

790s
Bronze
Palatine Chapel, Aachen

Charlemagne's chapel at Aachen was modelled on Justinian's imperial church of San Vitale in Ravenna. The lion-head door-handle of the chapel clearly follows a classical model.




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