Griffin from Arlanza
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Description:
Painting
Primer quart del segle XIII
189.5 x 322 x 4 cm
Purchase, 1943
Inventory number:
040142-000
Century: 13th
Subject: Animal figure
Subject: Plant motif
Fresco transferred to canvas
Flanked the south window. The MNAC has 5 more fragments from the same decorative group. There are others at the Harvard University Fogg Art Museum, The Cloisters in New York and another one in a private collection. They come from a room in the former Benedictine abbey of San Pedro de Arlanza (Burgos), located over the chapter house, on the ground floor of the Torre del Tesoro.
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