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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Location: 
Sala 017
Artists / Makers / Authorities: 
Anonymous. Aragon
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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).
image for: Anònim. Aragó - Pintures profanes de Sixena: Cèrvol menjant fruits d'un arbre, lleó subjectant un home nu i cavaller descavalcat i agenollat davant una dama entronitzada - Cap a 1200
Anònim. Aragó - Pintures profanes de Sixena: Cèrvol menjant fruits d'un arbre, lleó subjectant un home nu i cavaller descavalcat i agenollat davant una dama entronitzada - Cap a 1200