Images of Medieval Art and Architecture

France:Saint-Gilles-du-Gard
Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Gilles

Central Portal Left - Double Socle

Images

Central Portal Left Socle

Fantastic Creatures (Circus??)

North Face

Monkeys and Camel

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Front

Human figure whose head appears
On south face of socle

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Image from Saint-Gilles cast in the
Hall of Sculpture in the Carnegie, Pittsburgh

South Face

Lion and humans

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Subject Matter

Fantastic Animals (Circus???)

North Face: Apes and Camel
West Face: Human figure
South Face: Lion and Humans

Location


Socles for double columns to the left of the central portal

Comparative Material

Click here to see other socles and bases from Saint-Gilles.

Bibliography

Stoddard, Pages 57-9, and 62.

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Updated by Jane Vadnal, July, 1998