Crypt, Lund Cathedral, Lund, Sweden
Crypt, 12th century, used for baptisms and burials, with groin vaults supported by columns, in Lund Cathedral, or Lunds domkyrka, built 11th - 12th century in Romanesque style, consecrated 1123, restored 16th and 19th centuries, in Lund, Scania, Sweden. On the left column is Finn, from the sculpture The Giant Finn and His Wife, possibly a depiction of Samson but according to legend, a petrified giant who shook the cathedral by a column when he was unpaid for helping build it. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Picture No
14114868
Media ID
46189954
Size
8268px x 5987px
(18.8MB)
Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
Date
2009
