Capital from Santa Maria de Besalú
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Description:
Sculpture
1137-1167/1171
66.5 x 65 x 36.5 cm
Long-term loan from the Generalitat de Catalunya, Godia dation, 1994
Inventory number:
200687-000
Century: 12th
Subject: Plant motif
Travertin carving
From the former church of the Augustinian community of canons regular of Santa Maria de Besalú (Garrotxa). It is part of a group of five figurative and Corinthian capitals of the apse. Other pieces of the set are in the building known as “El Conventet” de Pedralbes, in Barcelona.