# Capital with bearded mask and heads [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MEDIEVAL SCULPTOR, German]() - Date: 1151-1200 - Technique: Stone ## Commentary Capital with bearded mask and heads c. 1200 Stone Church of St John the Baptist, Spieskappel With a few exceptions, there are no counterparts to the extensive visual narratives on the capitals in Spain, southern France and Burgundy, in German churches. Most of the capitals only have geometric shapes, animals and plant decorations, masks, or monsters. At the former Premonstratensian Spieskappel monastery church there are capitals which show a combination of ornamental patterns and imaginary creatures. Some of the capitals also depict figurative scenes. The picture shows an example from the nave of the former Premonstratensian monastery church of St John the Baptist in Spieskappel \(Hesse\). ## Related artworks - [Angel Noting down Man's Good Deeds]() - [Angels' Pillar \(detail\)]() - [Angels' Pillar \(detail\)]() - [Angels' Pillar \(detail\)]() - [Angels' Pillar \(detail\)]() - [Angels' Pillar \(detail\)]() - [Angels' Pillar]() - [Animal column]() - [Bamberg Rider]() - [Burial chamber \(interior\)]() - [Burial chamber \(western outer wall\)]() - [Capital with figural decoration]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()