Ref. 450

PILLAR OF ALTAR OR COLUMN DECORATED WITH CROSS AND GRAFITTI.
VISIGOTH CULTURE. 650-750 AC.

Height: 74 cm
Width: 16 cm
Depth: 23 cm

Pillar of altar or Visigoth column without base nor capital, with the typical carved and centered cross on the pillar, that characterizes the Visigoth altars after the regulation of the liturgy on the part of the Toledana court from the VII century. The piece is worked only by two visible sides, which retain small remains of the stucco that covered it.
Special emphasis is placed on the graphite below the cross. During the Visigoth era, in rural areas where cultural fashions went a long way, there was no clear yet clear model of how to represent the main symbols of Christianity. In the case of the image of the Virgin the confusion was still greater, because at the beginning Church did not favor her cult. Although not having a well-defined iconographic typology (as if it were with the Romanesque), the village used ancestral symbols related to the ancient Great Goddess to represent and worship to her. That what shows the graffiti of this lieutenant, which carved with simple incised paths represents the Virgin-Goddess with a triangle formed by a line in the middle and finished with bird limbs (head with beaks, long legs and wings).

Origin: Central Catalonia

Price: CONSULT