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The Gothic cathedral at Burgo de Osma was begun in 1232, the sculpture in the main portal was installed between 1250 and 1275. The jamb-piers are divided into two registers, the lower decorated with blind arcading, and the upper with a series of figures from the Old and New Testaments. These prophets, kings and queens are the work of an artrist who knew the art of Burgos but not French cathedral sculpture. The proportions are more compact than those of contemporary French figures, the faces schematic, and the draperies coarser in treatment. This simpler, low-keyed provincial art is at several removes from its model, the series of kings and prophets at Reims.
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