3/Small details like these of working practices help to connect groups of capitals and other architectural ornament across different monuments.
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1/ If you’re interested in or puzzled by that “technical detail”, you can see it very clearly in the beard of the man in the 3rd (lower left) photo or the hair of the face on the left in the last (lower right) photo. Once you notice it, you’ll see it elsewhere in the grooves of the acanthus leaves.
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Overview of the cloister arcade with white and green bands of stone and inlaid patterns in the spandrels
Capital with lions attacking an eagle
Capital with lions in combat
The surviving wing of the cloister of Prato Cathedral, #Tuscany, c. 1170 with capitals in serpentine stone, the "green marble" of Prato
#Romanesque #Romanico #MedievalArt #AnimalsInArt
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Iglesia de San Martín, Villaute, Burgos (Castilla y León) 🇪🇸
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9 de septiembre de 2024
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Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham and Lord Chancellor of England (d.1682) is commemorated with this fine monument, possibly by William Stanton, at Ravenstone, Buckinghamshire.
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Iglesia de Santa María La Real, Cillamayor, Palencia (Castilla y León) 🇪🇸
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8 de septiembre de 2024
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Looks like that all nighter at the Comedy Club had left a lasting impression on Harry.
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Cotterstock church in Northants was founded in 1317 by John Gifford who spent most of the 1330s establishing it as a collegiate church, appropriation was authorised in 1340. Seemingly, wool played its part in the college's fortunes and these curious objects in the C15 porch are wool bales.
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Iglesia de San Miguel, Fuentidueña (Segovia, Castilla y León) 🇪🇸
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25 de agosto de 2024
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Alternating standing figures of men and women with hands clasped, some raised, some at their sides.
Detail of the faces and raised, clasped hands of three figures.
Row of men and women with clasped hands
The "capital of the dance", a splendid #Romanesque piece from the onetime abbey of Sant'Andrea dell'Isola at Brindisi, now in the Museo Archeologico, Brindisi
#romanico #museitaliani
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Capital with row of acanthus leaves in the lower zone and a large head in the center of each face.
Detail of a woman's head: she is veiled and wears earrings. The sculptor has drilled the pupils of her eyes. She is framed by acanthus leaves.
Detail of a bearded man's head. He wears a rounded, conical cap and is framed by acanthus leaves
A second capital with a lower row of acanthus leaves, corner volutes, and a large head (a woman and a man) on each face.
A pair of Roman capitals decorated with large heads on each face at the Museo Archeologico, Brindisi.
They were found in excavations at the site itself, a handy thing for a museum.
#AncientBlueSky #museitaliani #Puglia
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Four-sided capital with two alternating roles of large, simple, and stylized rectangular leaves. In the upper row, there is one at each corner with a figure seated on it and supporting the corners of the abacus. Between them, on the center of each face of the capital, an animal is carved in low relief on the exposed bell of the capital, above the lower leaves. Two are roosters, two are griffins. The feathers and wings are detailed with incisions and grooves.
A griffin in low relief with a bird's beaked head and a feathered breast, a lion's body, legs, and long tail.
A rooster in low relief with a crest and a fan of tail feathers.
Thin line between a griffin and a rooster.
#Romanesque capital in the Bitonto Cathedral crypt.
#romanico
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Cattedrale di Palermo, Palermo PA (Sicilia) 🇮🇹
Corona di Costanza d'Aragona, 1220-1222 ca, oro, argento d'orato e filigranato, smalti, perle, pietre policrome.
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20 agosto 2024
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