# Cantigas de Alfonso el Sabio [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, Spanish]() - Date: 1251-1300 - Technique: Manuscript \(Ms. T.j.1\), 486 x 332 mm ## Commentary Cantigas de Alfonso el Sabio 1250-1300 Manuscript \(Ms. T.j.1\), 486 x 332 mm Real Biblioteca de San Lorenzo, El Escorial Alfonso X, king of Spain, commissioned this richly illustrated manuscript of songs in honour of the Virgin Mary. The pictures on folio 200r, shown here, tell the story of a song about a bull fight. A man prays to the Virgin and then goes off to buy his ticket to the fight. Unfortunately, he falls into the arena and is about to be gored to death when the Virgin sends the bull to sleep and the man escapes. When it wakes up, everyone congratulates the bull. ## Related artworks - [Alba Bible]() - [Alfonso the Wise: Cantigas de Santa Maria]() - [Alfonso the Wise: Cantigas de Santa Maria]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Astrological Treatise]() - [Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse]() - [Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse]() - [Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse]() - [Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse]() - [Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse]() - [Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse]() - [Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()