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Watercolor by E.E. de Labarre made after 1794 |
Watercolor by /Piersac/Piersac |
All that remains: The only extant fragment is the filial of the top. | |
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Adapted from Babelon, Plate XXXIII |
Paris; Bibliothéque Nationale Image cannot be enlarged. |
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Description
Reliquary called the Screen or Oratory of Charlemagne in the old inventories of the Treasure. This reliquary is made only of gold, pearls, and precious stones.On the top is represented a princess that some people hold is either Cleopatra or Julia, daughter of the Emperor Titus.
Félibien, pages 542. Translated by Jane Vadnal.
Top of the Screen of Charlemagne
Babelon (1887), no XXXIII, 104-6.
Conway, (1915), p 128-30. Click here for text.
Félibien, page 542.
Louvre, no. 13, pages 92-9.
Montesquiou-Fezensac, I and II, no. 4., III, p. 25-7, pl 8.
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