# Lion wall painting

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## Artwork

- Artist: [ROMANESQUE PAINTER, Spanish](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/romanesque-painter-spanish-re1680618911f3a>)
- Date: 1151-1200
- Technique: Fresco transferred to canvas, 220 x 330 cm

## Commentary

Lion wall painting c. 1200 Fresco transferred to canvas, 220 x 330 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Displaced fragments survive from the decoration of chapterhouses, as in the late twelfth-century wall-paintings from the chapterhouse of the monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza, near Burgos in northern Spain. This chapterhouse may also have functioned as a funerary chapel; its wall-paintings have fantastic animals for their enigmatic theme, probably inspired by English bestiary illustrations. They include the famous stylised lion with an anthropomorphic head, now in the Cloisters, New York.

## Related artworks

- [Creation Adam and the Original Sin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/romanesque-painter-spanish-re1680618911f3a/creation-adam-and-the-original-sin-r3dbeba7f1eb2ac>)
- [Hunt of the Hare](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/romanesque-painter-spanish-re1680618911f3a/hunt-of-the-hare-r5673cf01af6f75>)

## Attribution

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