MEDIEVAL SCULPTOR, German
(active 1180s in Hildesheim)

Capital with foliage and heads

1180s
Stone
St Michael, Hildesheim

With a few exceptions, there are no counterparts to the extensive visual narratives on the capitals in Spain, southern France and Burgundy, in German churches. Most of the capitals only have geometric shapes, animals and plant decorations, masks, or monsters. The picture shows an example from the nave of the former Benedictine monastery church of St Michael in Hildesheim (Lower Saxony).