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Capital with male figures
Telamone with dragons
mosaic of Sant'Eustachio
Main portal of Santa Maria del Popolo
Styphore Lion
Leone Stiloforo
Pietà Mantegazza
Apsidal fresco of Sant'Agata al Monte
Wooden model of the Cathedral of Pavia
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Crypt of Sant'Eusebio
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Crypt of Sant'Eusebio
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Triumph of Alexander the Great
Reflection
Gallant scene
Portrait of a Malaspina man
Shovel Bottigella
Madonna and Child
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Small cup
Pluteus with peacocks
Senator plate
Pluteus with sea monsters

Pluteus with sea monsters

Anonymous

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Civic Museums of the Visconti Castle

Civic Museums of the Visconti Castle

Viale XI Febbraio, 35, Pavia

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This slab, together with its twin B 57, comes from the Monastery of Santa Maria Teodote or della Pusterla, currently the Episcopal Seminary of Pavia, where they constituted the presbyterial barrier, that is the enclosure that divided the part of the church reserved for the bishop and the clergy from that of the faithful. Critics assign it to the period of the Lombard king Liutprando (712-744). According to the typically aniconic taste of Lombard art, the subjects represented are plant and animal motifs: the central field houses a composition with the depiction of two sea monsters with lion heads, wings and anguiform tail, placed in front of a tree of life , an iconographic motif of Iranian-Persian tradition, which arrived in the West thanks to commercial and artistic exchanges with Constantinople. In the lower corners there are two small figures of dolphins. The two-dimensional articulation of the decorative elements prevails in the slab. Animals and the tree of life are characterized by sharp profiles. The series of coils in the tails of sea monsters, represented as superimposed disks, escapes this approach. The progressive anthropomorphic decorative loss towards a symbolic predilection of phytomorphic and zoomorphic elements, present in the slab, identifies the direction in which subsequent medieval art will develop.
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Title: Pluteus with sea monsters

Author: Anonymous

Date: VIII century

Technique: marble

Displayed in: Civic Museums of the Visconti Castle

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