![]() ![]() The first mention of Comacine masters was in an edict of 643 of the Lombard king Rothari, which concerned itself in Lombard fashion mainly with the indemnity that would be due should a house collapse which had been built by a magister comacinus for a patron ad opera dictandi ("commissioning the works"). ![]() The name comacini Romantic historians of the nineteenth century traced to the location where they supposedly had their headquarters, the minute Isola Comacina in Lake Como, alleged to have been a safe haven during the Lombard invasion a more inventive etymology derives from a supposed Latin expression cum machinis, referring to their tools. Their masons' marks have suggested arcane meanings for some enthusiasts. The Comacine masters ( magistri comacini) were early medieval Lombard stonemasons working in a region of excellent building stone who gave to Lombardy its preeminence in the stone architecture that preceded Romanesque style. Scroll with the names Maderno, Ferrethi, Regondi, della Torre and Passerini, while to the upper right is a quotation from Neugebäude Castle. Lion portal at the monastery church (Kaiserdom) in Königslutter Portion of the carvings of the choir apsis of the church at Königslutter Capital of a pillar in the transept of the church of Königslutter Stone relief carving of the Italian Master in Kaisersteinbruch. ![]()
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