Romanesque stone capital circa 1190 AD in cloister at Benedictine Monasterio de San Juan de la Peña, near Jaca in Huesca, Aragon, Spain. The artwork is one of 20 Romanesque capitals in the monastery cloister by the same sculptor, known as The Master of San Juan de la Peña or Master of Aguero.
Monasterio de San Juan de la Peña, near Jaca, Huesca province, Aragon, Spain: scenes sculpted on 20 Romanesque stone capitals in about 1190 AD by an artist known only as The Master of San Juan de la Peña tell Old and New Testament Bible stories, from the Creation to Christ’s Ascension, in a cloistered courtyard built to symbolize a New Jerusalem. The Benedictine monastery, on the Camino de Santiago Christian pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela, was founded under a bulging rock overhang in the Central Pyrenees by hermit monks fleeing the 10th century expansion in the Moorish occupation of Spain.
Size: 2832px × 4256px
Location: Monasterio de San Juan de la Peña, near Jaca, Huesca province, Aragon, Spain.
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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