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Pink Marble Columns from St Michel de Cuxa

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Pink Marble Columns from St Michel de Cuxa

at the Cloisters Museum in NYC

The cloister, a square garden court surrounded by a covered walkway, was a central feature of the medieval monastery. The pink marble columns and capitals here come from the twelfth-century cloister of the once prosperous abbey at Cuxa, in the eastern Pyrenees. The heavy capitals are carved with vegetal and animal forms, many of them fanciful and even humorous to the modern eye. The exuberant ornament of the capitals seems to depart from the solemn restraint of monastic life. Although some medieval reformers, such as Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, deplored such decoration as superfluous and distracting to meditation, many scholars today trace it to the imaginative energy of medieval artists as well as monastic patrons.

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/25.120.398

http://www.bygad.biz/campome_files/StMichel.htm

Commenti 6

Glenn Capers 16/04/2012 1:55
this has a nice balance of light zones.. well done
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monika huertgen 13/04/2012 8:26
Sehr schön.Hat was.
LG.Monika
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Taschendieb 13/04/2012 8:16
sorry, its not spain!
"Saint-Michel de Cuxa abbey, in Codalet (département of Pyrénées-Orientales, Languedoc-Roussillon région, France)"
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pts 13/04/2012 7:51
Ein Kreuzgang also, wunderbar im vollsten
Sonnenschein liegend. Da freuen sich die dort stehenden Pflanzen und können wachsen und gedeihen. Das sieht alles sehr gepflegt aus.
Die Säulen, aus dem 12ten. Jahrhundert, kommen
aus Spanien, was ich nicht gedacht hätte.
Schönes Ausschnittsbild des eckigen Gartens,
der davor liegt.
Tschüssing gemblue,
peter
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Adele D. Oliver 13/04/2012 2:43
This sunny scene and the authentic pink marble columns transport one directly into Spain .... so romantic this view, beautiful the light and plants .... a fine image !!!
hugs, Adele
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claudine capello 13/04/2012 1:12
bellissima foto complimenti :..Un pezzo di spgna in NY....original!
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