Historiated Capital- Knight fights a grotesque creature

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• Title
• Historiated Capital- Knight fights a grotesque creature
• Contributor
• Jane Vadnal (contributor)
  University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
• Contributor
• Jane Vadnal
• Identifier
• FCSP23980120
• Description
• Historiated; Gothic; North Porch, Left At right stands a knight wearing a chain-mail tunic. He faces toward the left, and holding up a shield and brandishing a weapon (a sword?) toward a grotesque creature at left. The head of this beast is missing. At right, the knights ankle is entwined by the reptilian tail of another winged grotesque creature. In the background is stylized foliage. There are three historiated capitals in the inner part of the left part of this porch. They all feature dragon-like creatures with snouted heads, birdlike bodies with two feet and wings, and long, reptilian tails. The meaning of these capitals is unclear. They many be related to the grotesque creatures which peer out of the trefoils on the base of an adjacent pier.; North Porch, Left
• Type
• still image
• Genre
• photographs
• Subject
• Cathédrale de Chartres--Pictorial works.
  Church decoration and ornament--France--Chartres--Pictorial works.
  Church architecture--France--Chartres--Pictorial works.
  Christian art and symbolism--France--Chartres--Medieval, 500-1500--Pictorial works.
• Geographic Subjects
• France
  Chartres
• Collection
• Chartres: Cathedral of Notre-Dame
• Contributor
• University of Pittsburgh
• Rights Information
• Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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