| LC control no. | no2014025036 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Uniform title heading | Cappenberger Barbarossakopf |
| Variant(s) | Kappenberger Barbarossakopf |
| Form of work | Reliquaries |
| Beginning date | 1155/1171 |
| Associated country | Germany |
| Place of origin | Cappenberg (Germany) |
| Found in | Horch, Caroline. "Nach dem Bild des Kaisers", 2013: title page (des Cappenberger Barbarossakopfes ...) Deutsche Nationalbibliothek online, Feb. 21, 2014 (access point: Cappenberger Barbarossakopf; other access point: Kappenberger Barbarossakopf; created between 1155-1171, portrait bust of Holy Roman emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa), considered to be the first portrait representation of a secular ruler in medieval art, later reworked into a reliquary) German Wikipedia, Feb. 21, 2014: "Cappenberger Barbarossakopf" (Cappenberger Barbarossakopf; a portrait bust of emperor Friedrich I. Barbarossa of gilded bronze; first portrait representation of Western art since Carolingian times, and turned into a reliquary in the 12th century; located today in the treasury of the Catholic parish church of St. Johannes Evangelist in Cappenberg near Lünen, the prior collegiate church of the Praemonstratensian monastery of Cappenberg; 31.4 cm. high weighing 4.6 kg.; artist unknown, exact date of creation unknown, but must be between 1155 (coronation of Friedrich) and 1171 (death of Otto of Cappenberg); first mentioned 1171 in a document of the Cappenberg monastery) |
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