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Bronze Doors by Barisano da Trani. Monreale Cathedral, Sicily, c.1190AD.
A Mounted Saint

A Mounted Saint on Bronze Doors by Barisano da Trani. Monreale Cathedral, Sicily, c.1190AD.

Image source: Goldschmidt, Adolph & Weitzmann, Kurt Die byzantinischen Elfenbeinskulpturen des X. - XIII. Jahrhunderts

Little is known of the life of Barisano da Trani. Two signed works are known to him: the bronze doors divided into squares of the cathedrals of Trani (1185) and of Monreale (1190).
He is also attributed the door to the Duomo of Ravello, the only one that bears an indisputable date (1179), commissioned by Sergio Muscettola, husband of Sigilgaida Pironti. In the central panel of the third row of the left wing it reads:
« ANNO MILLESIMO CENTESIMO SEPTUAGESIMO NONO INCARNACIO IES XPO DNO NRO MEMENTO DNE FAMULO TUO SERGIO MUSETULE ET UXORI SUE SICLIGAUDE ET FILIIS SUIS MAURO ET IOHES ET FILIA SUA ANNA QOT ISTA PORTA FACERE AGIT AD HONOREM DEI ET SANCTE MARIE VIRGINIS »
"Remember, O Lord, your servant Sergio Muscettola and his wife Sigilgaida and his sons Mauro and Giovanni, and his daughter Anna, for he had this door built in the year 1179 of the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, for the honor of God and of the Holy Virgin Mary"

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Bronze Doors by Barisano da Trani. Monreale Cathedral, Sicily, c.1190AD. A Mounted Saint

Bronze Doors by Barisano da Trani. Monreale Cathedral, Sicily, c.1190AD.
A Mounted Saint