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Ossuary

Lapidary

Anonymous

Last quarter of the 13th century

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The Museu Episcopal de Vic conserves various sculptural elements from the monastery of Sant Pere de Casserres, an important Benedictine monastery founded in the 11th century on the initiative of the viscounts of Osona. It stands in beautiful surroundings, inside the municipal boundaries of Les Masies de Roda. From Casserres comes a series of capitals that we also find exhibited in the Lapidary section and which is considered to be a good example of the architectural sculpture of the Romanesque. This ossuary is remarkable because the motifs that figure on the front (two peacocks flanking a Greek cross) are derived directly from the art of the earliest years of Christianity. The cross is the Christian symbol par excellence while the peacocks are considered symbols of the resurrection.

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Location

Room3 ,Floor-1

1 History of the Museum

2 Archaelogy

3 Lapidary

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PLACE OF EXECUTION

Catalonia

PERIOD

Last quarter of the 13th century

Material

Stone

Dimensions

30 x 77 x 39 cm

Origin

From the monastery of Sant Pere de Casserres (Osona)

WORK NUMBER

MEV 10623