MEDIEVAL SCULPTOR, Catalan
(active 1200s in Lérida)

Capitals

1210s
Stone
Cathedral of La Seu Vella, Lleida

A very late Romanesque sculpture, contemporary with Gothic creations existed from Italy to Galicia. It proposes eclectic solutions, but among other permanent characteristics possesses a renewed penchant for certain aspects of the art of Late Antiquity and the resumption of artistic exchanges with distant parts. The beautifully fashioned capitals in the Cathedral of La Seu Vella (the Old Cathedral) in Lleida, Catalonia, present an example.