LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: apse

The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi Fresco transferred to canvas Attributed to the Master of Pedret Spain, Catalunya (Cataluna), Lleida (Lerida), ca. 1100 From the church of Saint Joan at Tredos Accession # 50.180 a-c The imposing fresco, from Saint Joan at Tredos, now mounted in the apse, combines the Adoration of the Magi with a monumental Virgin and Child in Majesty. All the figures are depicted in relative scale according to their hieratic positions. The painting has been attributed to an itinerant artist whose principal work is at Sant Quirze de Pedret. The Lombardic elements in the style and iconography of his works indicate that the Pedret Master may have come from Northern Italy. Text from the Cloisters label.

Christ on the Cross The corpus: linden with traces of polychromy The cross: fir with traces of polychromy Austria, Tirol or Salzburg, ca. 1125-1150 Accession # 1984. (?) His eyes open, the living Christ is shown here on the cross symbolizing his victory over death. The Romanesque figure style retains elements of (10th or 11th?) century Ottonian art, especially the tendency to organize the anatomical forms economically, with planar simplicity and and linear clarity. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label. and The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi Fresco transferred to canvas Attributed to the Master of Pedret Spain, Catalunya (Cataluna), Lleida (Lerida), ca. 1100 From the church of Saint Joan at Tredos Accession # 50.180 a-c The imposing fresco, from Saint Joan at Tredos, now mounted in the apse, combines the Adoration of the Magi with a monumental Virgin and Child in Majesty. All the figures are depicted in relative scale according to their hieratic positions. The painting has been attributed to an itinerant artist whose principal work is at Sant Quirze de Pedret. The Lombardic elements in the style and iconography of his works indicate that the Pedret Master may have come from Northern Italy. Text from the Cloisters label.