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France (Autun, Burgundy)
Equestrian Figure / Knight Historiated Capital from the Cathedral of Saint-Lazare
2209
High Romanesque (12th Century), c. 1120–1135 CE
A Romanesque historiated capital by Gislebertus (c. 1120–1135 CE) depicting an armored equestrian figure mounted on horseback, flanked by crouching attendants and grotesque figures amid dense vertical fronds and pendulous pinecone clusters — a didactic moral emblem reflecting chivalric culture and secular authority within a pilgrimage church.
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