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The lively hunting scene, which takes place beside a palm tree, with lions, dogs, flying hawks and hunters facing the beasts with spears, is of a large decorative beauty even for its vivid harmony of colours: green, red, yellow, light blue on the red background of the motifs and white …

The depiction of Honorius I, of an aristocratic family from Campania, Pope from 625 to 638, gives a clear image of a Pope of that time, in chasuble and sacred Pallium. Note the large tonsure and the absence of headgear. Despite the Lombard domination extended across a large part of …

Pyxis made from ivoire in the 5th century. The Nativity is presented there. This is reposited in the treasure chamber of the basilica St.Ludger in Essen-Werden in Germany.

The lovely cross found in Cividale in a tomb known as “Gisulfo’s” is the most important example of gold foil. The rich decorations is made up of eight heads of a typical Lombard relief, and of nine stones set in laminar alveolus; a round oriental garnet in the centre, four …

The Lombard art of metal work is attested to by these ornamental gold Stabio foil figures found in a tomb discovered : on the left is an elegant floral motif; on the right a vivacious portrayal of an animal. According to Baserga that ornament was applied to the belt, and …