Profane paintings from Sigena: Deer eating fruit from a tree, lion holding a naked man and dismounted knight kneeling before a lady on a throne
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Description:
Painting
c. 1200
109.8 x 207 x 4 cm
Long-term loan from the community of nuns of the Order of Saint John of the monastery of Santa Maria de Sigena, 1960
Inventory number:
068712-003
Century: 12th
Subject: Genre and society
Fresco transferred to canvas
One of the eight panels making up the series of mural paintings in the form of a continuous decorative frieze around the top of the walls of a rectangular room located between the church and the cloister. From the monastery of the Order of Saint John of Santa María de Sigena (Villanueva de Sigena, Huesca).