MEDIEVAL SCULPTOR, Spanish
(active 1090s in Compostela)

Puerta de las Platerías (detail)

1090s
Stone
Cathedral of Santiago, Compostela

The picture shows a detail of the left tympanum on the Puerta de las Platerías. Here a sensuous woman with long, loose hair and a transparent garment is depicted holding a skull in her lap. She is traditionally interpreted as an adulteress holding the skull of her lover.