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France (Autun, Burgundy)
Interior Wall Painting and Decorative Frieze Fragment at the Cathedral of Saint-Lazare
2208
High to Late Gothic (c. 13th–15th Century)
A Gothic interior wall painting and decorative frieze fragment (c. 13th–15th CE) preserved in situ at Autun, featuring a celestial upper vault with angels holding back a draped curtain above a field of interlocking ogival lattice panels filled with stylized foliate palmettes in terracotta and ochre — a simulated textile hanging transforming the stone interior into a heavenly Jerusalem.
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