Cleveland Museum of Art
Engaged Capital with Lions
- Date
- 1145–64
- Medium
- marble
- Culture
- Northern Spain (Navarre ?) or Southwest France (Pyrénées or Roussillon ?), mid-12th century
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The compositional motif of confronted and addorsed beasts illustrated on this capital was especially popular in churches along the pilgrimage roads.
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