Rood screen, Abbaye de Pontigny, Pontigny, Burgundy, France
Rood screen, 17th century, separating the nave from the Gothic choir, topped with a crucifix and with 2 paintings surrounded by columns with corinthian capitals, in the Abbaye de Pontigny, or Pontigny Abbey, a Cistercian abbey founded 1114, in Pontigny, Burgundy, France. The monastery was dissolved in 1791 during the French Revolution and only the abbey church survived, which is a 12th century Romanesque building. This is the largest Cistercian abbey in France and is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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