MEDIEVAL SCULPTOR, Spanish
(active in the 12th century)

Capital

12th century
Stone
Cloister of Santo Domingo, Silos

Surprisingly, we can encounter a vast amount of bizarre, grotesque and often apparently subversive imagery at the margins of devotional manuscripts, the capitals of churches and cloisters and the undersides of choir stalls. The present image shows a capital in the Cloister of Santo Domingo de Silos depicting harpies-birds with women's heads.