France (Autun, Burgundy)

The Adoration of the Magi Historiated Capital from the Cathedral of Saint-Lazare

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High Romanesque (12th Century), c. 1120–1135 CE

A Romanesque historiated capital by Gislebertus (c. 1120–1135 CE) depicting the Adoration of the Magi — three crowned wise men advancing with offerings toward the Virgin and Child enthroned beneath an architectural baldachin — with a continuous lower register of deeply carved overlapping rosette medallions anchoring the composition.