[6] The Adoration of the Magi is represented upon the lower border of the long robe worn by the empress Theodora (wife of Justinian) in the mosaic in the church of S. Vitale at Ravenna. [7] Writers have assigned different dates to this vestment: Lady Alford, _Needlework as Art_ (earlier than the 13th century); F. Bock, _Die Kleinodien_ (12th century); S. Boisserée, _Über die Kaiser-Dalmatica in der St Peterskirche zu Rom_ (12th or first half of 13th century); A.S. Cole, _Cantor Lectures at Society of Arts, 1905_ (possibly of 9th century); Lord Lindsay, _Christian Art_ (12th or early 13th century); A. Venturi, _Storia dell' arte_ (10th or 11th century); T. Braun, _Liturg. Gewandung_, p. 305 and note (late 14th or early 15th century). [8] Both are illustrated in F. Bock, _Die Kleinodien_. [9] Some embroideries from vestments, designed by Pollaiuolo, are still preserved in the Museo dell' Opera del Duomo, Florence. [10] Others, sometimes with the same illustrations, appeared in France and Germany, and no doubt forwarded the general tendency towards Italian models at the time. A few pattern-books were also published in England. EMBRUN, a town in the department of the Hautes Alpes in S.E. France. It is built at a height of 2854 ft. on a plateau that rises above the right bank of the Durance. It is 27½ m. by rail from Briançon and 24 m. from Gap. Its ramparts were demolished in 1884. In 1906 the communal pop. (including the garrison) was 3752. Besides the Tour Brune (11th century) and the old archiepiscopal palace, now occupied by government offices, barracks, &c., the chief object of interest in Embrun is its splendid cathedral church, which dates from the second half of the 12th century. Above its side door, called the _Réal_, there existed till 1585 (when it was destroyed by the Huguenots) a fresco, probably painted in the 13th century, representing the Madonna: this was the object of a celebrated pilgrimage for many centuries. Louis XI. habitually wore on his hat a leaden image of this Madonna, for which he had a very great veneration, since between 1440 and 1461, during the lifetime of his father, he had been the dauphin, and as such ruler of this province.