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Romanesque Marble Capital with Masks and Birds in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2008

Romanesque Marble Capital with Masks and Birds in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2008
Marble Capital with Masks and Birds
Carved 1140-1150, in the vicinity of Toulouse, southern France

Accession # 28.81

With its decorative motifs of masks and birds linked with vines, this double capital is typical of that found in cloisters in the vicinity of Toulouse.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.
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