Situla of Gotofredo

Dated 974-79, it was long held to be the work of Germanic craftsmen, but is today attributed to Lombard artists because of the solemn slowness with which the plastic projection of the relief is handled and the Latin character of the inscription and the frieze. The relationship remains clear, however, between this intense sculpture and the work of the German Ottonian school, distinguished by a dramatic expressionism supported by a high level of culture.