Dog, Tomb, Gothic Chapel, The Met Cloisters, New York, USA

Dog, from the sepulchral monument of Ermengol X, Count of Urgell, c. 1300a"50, in the Gothic Chapel, a 13th century chapel 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 effigy was originally in the monastery chapel of Santa Maria de Bellpuig de les Avellanes, near Lleida in Catalonia Spain, and the sarcophagus is 18th century. The Cloisters collection includes Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance works from 12th to 15th centuries. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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