Bernward Monument [SEP] material used
Bernward Monument
The Bernward Monument (German: "Bernwardsdenkmal") is a larger-than-life-sized bronze statue of Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim in the in Hildesheim. It was made by in 1893 for the nine hundredth anniversary of St. Bernward's enthronement as Bishop of Hildesheim. On 7 September 2011, in the course of the renovations of Hildesheim Cathedral it was temporarily relocated to the garden of house 24, Domhof.
The monument up to 2011.
The statue stood on a broad cubic base of roughly
of the individual panels. Rainer Kahsnitz has since put these attributions in doubt, since the differences in execution between the reliefs is so marginal that they might as easily be the result of technical requirements as different artistic styles. Probably a single artist was responsible for the creation of the Bernward Doors, with a small group of apprentices and assistants.
Predecessors and later works.
There are various possibilities for the model of the Hildesheim doors as panelled doors (on the Roman model) and for the material used. Outstanding examples