Capital, Langon Chapel, The Met Cloisters, New York, USA

Carved stone capitals with animal and human figures, from the Langon Chapel, originally the Romanesque choir of the Church of Notre-Dame-Du-Bourg near Bordeaux, founded 1126, a dependency of the Benedictine monastery Notre Dame de la Grande Sauve, in The Cloisters, a museum specialising in European medieval architecture, sculpture and decorative arts, part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, at Fort Tryon Park, Manhattan, New York, USA. The Cloisters collection includes Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance works from 12th to 15th centuries. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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