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This #spoliaSunday we're admiring the magnificent cover of a Carolingian gospel, with, at its centre, a stupendous #imperial #cameo of #Constantine and his family, before he started killing them off. #Charlemagne saw himself as the obvious heir to #Rome. 🧵

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This #spoliaSunday we're off to Brescia to see how an ivory consular diptych, beautiful in itself, became a part of church liturgy in two successive phases. This work originally dates from the #Gothic kingdom, and though the capital was #Ravenna, this scene is set in #Rome. 🧵

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For #spoliaSunday we're off to #Vicenza to see a lovely ancient statue obtain a lovely head from 1501, at the #exhibition "Recycling Beauty" at the Fondazione Prada in #Milan. She's been turned into a S. Ifigenia, a shadowy figure in the legend of the apostle Matthew.