Diptych of St. Gregory

The extreme difficulty of dating early medieval works, of which the previous figure offers proof, arises here again in one of its most acute forms. Despite the late-antique tone and the iconographic affinities with works of the 6th–7th centuries, these stiff but elegant figures probably belong to the cultural atmosphere of the Carolingian renaissance (9th century) and constitute an imitation or partial remaking of an earlier “piece”.