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Capitals And More
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I like capitals, decorative sculpture, and ornament. Soon you will too.
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Capitals And More @capitalsandmore.bsky.social · Dec 26
Helluva way to hold up an abacus
Basilica di Santa Croce, Lecce
#Architecture #Sculpture
Above a row of acanthus on an ornately carved capital, pairs of cherubs on each face of the capital help support a cherub at each corner by clasping his knees as he somersaults or dives to stand on his hands on the acanthus leaf below. The design is as complicated and topsy-turvy as that sentence. Above them, the projecting corners of a sharply concave abacus are gripped between the tumbling cherubs' legs and rest on the tip of their wings.
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Iglesia de San Pedro, Miñón de Santibáñez, Burgos (Castilla y León) 🇪🇸

emiliaromanica.com/2025/11/09/

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9 de septiembre de 2024
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Iglesia de San Martín, Villaute, Burgos (Castilla y León) 🇪🇸

emiliaromanica.com/2025/11/11/

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9 de septiembre de 2024
November 11, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Sala Capitular del Monasterio de Santa María de Carracedo #León
Es de los espacios medievales mejor conservados del complejo. Construida a finales del S.XII o comienzos del XIII, es considerada la única sala capitular del Cister en León que ha conservado su trazado primitivo.
November 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Iglesia de Santa María la Mayor, Fuente Urbel, Burgos (Castilla y León) 🇪🇸

emiliaromanica.com/2025/11/13/

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9 de septiembre de 2024
November 13, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Iglesia de San Cosme y San Damián, Basconcillos del Tozo, Burgos (Castilla y León) 🇪🇸

emiliaromanica.com/2025/11/15/

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9 de septiembre de 2024
November 15, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham and Lord Chancellor of England (d.1682) is commemorated with this fine monument, possibly by William Stanton, at Ravenstone, Buckinghamshire.
November 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Iglesia de Santa María La Real, Cillamayor, Palencia (Castilla y León) 🇪🇸

emiliaromanica.com/2025/10/28/

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8 de septiembre de 2024
October 28, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Iglesia de Santa María La Real, Cillamayor, Palencia (Castilla y León) 🇪🇸

emiliaromanica.com/2025/10/28/

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8 de septiembre de 2024
October 29, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Looks like that all nighter at the Comedy Club had left a lasting impression on Harry.
October 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Iglesia de San Martín, Matalbaniega, Palencia (Castilla y León) 🇪🇸

emiliaromanica.com/2025/10/30/

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8 de septiembre de 2024
October 31, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Some comparison shots of mine between the capitals of the Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus (Little Hagia Sophia), Basilica of San Vitale, and Hagia Sophia.
August 7, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Iglesia de los Santos Justo y Pastor (Museo de los Fueros), Sepúlveda, Segovia (Castilla y León) 🇪🇸

emiliaromanica.com/2025/08/03/

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30 de agosto de 2024
August 4, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Peña, Sepúlveda, Segovia (Castilla y León) 🇪🇸

emiliaromanica.com/2025/08/05/

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30 de agosto de 2024
August 5, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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Iglesia de San Andrés, Ávila (Castilla y León) 🇪🇸

emiliaromanica.com/2025/07/16/

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27 de agosto de 2024
July 16, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Cotterstock church in Northants was founded in 1317 by John Gifford who spent most of the 1330s establishing it as a collegiate church, appropriation was authorised in 1340. Seemingly, wool played its part in the college's fortunes and these curious objects in the C15 porch are wool bales.
July 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Iglesia de San Andrés, Ávila (Castilla y León) 🇪🇸

emiliaromanica.com/2025/07/16/

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27 de agosto de 2024
July 17, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Iglesia de San Millán, Segovia (Castilla y León) 🇪🇸

emiliaromanica.com/2025/06/18/

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24 de agosto de 2024
June 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Iglesia de San Miguel, Fuentidueña (Segovia, Castilla y León) 🇪🇸

emiliaromanica.com/2025/06/28/

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25 de agosto de 2024
June 29, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Iglesia Parroquial de San Lorenzo, Segovia (Castilla y León) 🇪🇸

emiliaromanica.com/2025/07/04/

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25 de agosto de 2024
July 5, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Iglesia de San Esteban, Nieva (Segovia, Castilla y León) 🇪🇸

emiliaromanica.com/2025/07/10/

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26 de agosto de 2024
July 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Estos días estamos en la región de Agen (Moirax, Moissac...) celebrando la Asamblea General 2025 de la Fédération Européenne des Sites Clunisiens. Más de 170 representantes asistimos de todos los sitios europeos 🥰🥰
July 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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The "capital of the dance", a splendid #Romanesque piece from the onetime abbey of Sant'Andrea dell'Isola at Brindisi, now in the Museo Archeologico, Brindisi
#romanico #museitaliani
Alternating standing figures of men and women with hands clasped, some raised, some at their sides. Detail of the faces and raised, clasped hands of three figures. Row of men and women with clasped hands
June 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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A pair of Roman capitals decorated with large heads on each face at the Museo Archeologico, Brindisi.
They were found in excavations at the site itself, a handy thing for a museum.
#AncientBlueSky #museitaliani #Puglia
Capital with row of acanthus leaves in the lower zone and a large head in the center of each face. Detail of a woman's head: she is veiled and wears earrings. The sculptor has drilled the pupils of her eyes. She is framed by acanthus leaves. Detail of a bearded man's head. He wears a rounded, conical cap and is framed by acanthus leaves A second capital with a lower row of acanthus leaves, corner volutes, and a large head (a woman and a man) on each face.
June 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Thin line between a griffin and a rooster.
#Romanesque capital in the Bitonto Cathedral crypt.
#romanico
Four-sided capital with two alternating roles of large, simple, and stylized rectangular leaves. In the upper row, there is one at each corner with a figure seated on it and supporting the corners of the abacus. Between them, on the center of each face of the capital, an animal is carved in low relief on the exposed bell of the capital, above the lower leaves. Two are roosters, two are griffins. The feathers and wings are detailed with incisions and grooves. A griffin in low relief with a bird's beaked head and a feathered breast, a lion's body, legs, and long tail. A rooster in low relief with a crest and a fan of tail feathers.
June 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Cattedrale di Palermo, Palermo PA (Sicilia) 🇮🇹

Corona di Costanza d'Aragona, 1220-1222 ca, oro, argento d'orato e filigranato, smalti, perle, pietre policrome.

emiliaromanica.com/2025/06/02/

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20 agosto 2024
June 3, 2025 at 6:13 AM