Daniel in der Löwenhöhle, dargestellt von einem mittelalterlichen Bildhauer als Mann in einer Gürteltruhe, der zwei knurrende Löwen festhält. Romanisch geformte Hauptstadt, Westportal des ehemaligen königlichen Klosters Santa Maria in Santa Cruz de la Serós in Huesca, Aragon, Spanien. Die Kirche, die erstmals im Jahr 1070 erwähnt wurde, wurde für ein Benediktinerkloster errichtet, das vom Königshaus Aragonien als „Familienkloster“ gegründet wurde.
4256 x 2832 px | 36 x 24 cm | 14,2 x 9,4 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
13. Juni 2011
Ort:
Santa Cruz de la Serós, Huesca, Aragon, Spain
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Santa Cruz de la Serós, Huesca, Aragon, Spain: the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament story of Daniel in the Lions’ Den, depicted by a medieval sculptor as a man wearing a belted tunic physically restraining two snarling lions. The 11th century Romanesque capital surmounts a column on the north side of the west portal to Santa María de Santa Cruz de la Serós, once the church of a Benedictine nunnery founded by the royal House of Aragon as a “family monastery”. The carved capital - and possibly the one beside it - is believed to represent the story told in the Book of Daniel of how the young Jewish man of noble birth was thrown into a den of lions by the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar II - only to emerge unscathed next day because he was protected from the wild beasts by an angel. Santa María was first mentioned in the year 1070, although the nunnery was probably founded earlier. Some female members of the Aragonese royal family ruled it as abbesses, while others who entered it as nuns included daughters of the first King of Aragon, Ramero I (1007-1063). The nunnery’s domestic buildings have now disappeared and the church stands alone in this small village in the Pyrenean foothills. Santa Maria is close in style to the cathedral at Jaca, the original capital and royal city of Aragon, and is one of the earliest examples of Aragonese Romanesque architecture. It was built on a Latin cross plan with a barrel-vaulted nave and a domed southern bell tower. The church has an unusual feature: an octagonal ‘secret’ chamber that may have been used by the abbess, or perhaps served as a sanctuary where the nuns could hide in times of danger. D1005.B2093
