MEDIEVAL SCULPTOR, French
(active 1120-1135 at Souillac)

Sacrifice of Abraham (detail of the trumeau)

1120-35
Stone
Sainte-Marie, Souillac

The former abbey church of Sainte-Marie at Souillac (Lot), built between about 1075 and 1150, had suffered extensive damage during the Huguenot wars. The extensive figured portal was affected extremely badly, and the remaining pieces were put back in position in the seventeenth century. Nowadays these fragments are on the inner western wall.

The left side of the trumeau depicts the Sacrifice of Abraham.