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Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe, France - Adoration of the Virgin

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  • Womack, James, photographer
  • Fresco on the lower left register of the second bay of the porch, depicting the enthroned Virgin censed by two angels hovering above her and attended on the left by eight clerks and their abbot, possibly symbolizing the St. Savin community, and on the right by a crowd of laymen among the first rank of which are seen the benefactors of the abbey, who are, from left to right, two crowned princes, a nimbused and hooded churchman, and a nimbused man holding out a crown or reliquary, possibly Charlemagne, Louis the Pious, Benedict of Aniane, and Guillaume le Grand. JPG file (627 KB)
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