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France (Autun, Burgundy)
The Fox and the Stork (Aesop's Fable) Historiated Capital by Gislebertus from the Cathedral of Saint-Lazare
2192
High Romanesque (12th Century), c. 1120–1135 CE
A Romanesque historiated capital by Gislebertus (c. 1120–1135 CE) in Autun limestone illustrating Aesop's Fable of The Fox and the Stork, with a long-billed stork dipping its beak into a narrow vessel while a fox sits below, deeply undercut with characteristic chiaroscuro plasticity.
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