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A good example of surviving polychromy on medieval stone sculpture is furnished by Nicodemus of Guardiagrele's ambo (dated by an inscription to 1159) in the church of Santa Maria del Lago at Moscufo (PE) in Abruzzo. See the views here:
http://tinyurl.com/2u3wsn
here (three pages; left-click to expand):
http://tinyurl.com/38dxjb
and especially here (expandable views in the black column at far right):
http://tinyurl.com/38dxjb
Also in Abruzzo, there's a little polychromy left on the reconstructed later twelfth-century ambo of the cathedral of San Pelino at Corfinio (AQ):
http://tinyurl.com/7r54n
and considerably more on this Madonna and Child in the same church:
http://tinyurl.com/9wo6r
Best again,
John Dillon
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