裸体骑士骑着狮子的首都 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	裸体骑士骑着狮子的首都
品名（英）	Capital with Lions Mounted by Nude Riders
入馆年号	1922年，22.219
策展部门	中世纪艺术（Medieval Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1100 - 公元 1150
创作地区	制造于: 西班牙北部或法国南部（Made in: nothern Spain or southern France）
分类	雕塑建筑（Sculpture-Architectural）
尺寸	整体: 19 x 18 1/2 x 19 英寸 (48.3 x 47 x 48.3 厘米) weight: 249磅 (112.9kg)
介绍（中）	狮子、人类和蛇以一种动态的构图包围着首都，将街区的四个独立的侧面变成了一个连续的生物游行。古罗马的雕塑以裸体形式著称，经常融入狮子和蛇等具有象征意义的强大野兽，激发了这种野生而神秘的物体的创作灵感。许多古代艺术品可供中世纪的艺术制作者使用，1100年左右工作的西欧雕塑家似乎对它们进行了特别仔细的研究，尽管他们自己的创作表明，他们对直接复制古代艺术品的兴趣不如为自己的目的重新解释古代艺术品。对于这些通常装饰教堂的作品来说，异教徒的主题具有新的基督教意义。尽管它的起源地尚不清楚，但在风格和主题选择上，这座首都与西班牙北部阿拉贡省的Jaca大教堂和法国南部的Saint-Sernin de Toulouse教堂的雕塑相似，这两个地方在比利牛斯山上紧密相连。它独特的石头捕获了微小的海洋生物化石，这些石头是在这些山脉的两侧开采的。
介绍（英）	Lions, humans, and snakes encircle this capital in a dynamic composition that transforms the block’s four separate sides into a continuous parade of creatures. The sculptures of ancient Rome, which celebrated the nude form and often incorporated such symbolically powerful beasts as lions and snakes, inspired the creation of this wild and enigmatic object. Many ancient artworks were available to medieval art makers, and western European sculptors working around the year 1100 seem to have studied them particularly closely, though their own creations reveal that they were less interested in directly copying antiquity than in reinterpreting it for their own purposes. For such works, which typically decorated churches, pagan subjects took on new, Christian significances. Though its site of origin is unknown, in its style and choice of subjects this capital is similar to sculptures made for the Cathedral of Jaca in the northern Spanish province of Aragon and for the church of Saint-Sernin de Toulouse in southern France, two sites closely connected across the Pyrenees. Its distinctive stone, which captured tiny, fossilized marine creatures, is quarried on both sides of these mountains.