Paint and Its Surface
Spanish (Castile)
Lion, from the Chapter House of San Pedro de Arlanza
after 1200
Fresco, mounted on canvas, 332.7 × 335.3 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Cloisters), New York
This lion was painted on a monastery wall, taken down in the early twentieth century and mounted on canvas.
- Lifting paintings off walls goes back to at least the 1500s.
- Other wall paintings from the same monastery are in Barcelona, at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.
Concepts
Image: The Met Open Access (via Wikimedia Commons) · CC0