From the Church of Notre-Dame de la Daurade / Two Columns / 400?600

From the Church of Notre-Dame de la Daurade
Two Columns
400?600
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Creator Nationality: European; French
Creator Dates/Places: French; Toulouse
Creator Name-CRT: From the Church of Notre-Dame de la Daurade
Title: Two Columns
View: Principal view
Creation Start Date: 400
Creation End Date: 600
Creation Date: 400?600
Creation Place: From the Church of Notre-Dame de la Daurade
Object Type: Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Materials and Techniques: marble
Dimensions: H. 74 1/4 in. (188.6 cm)
Description: These columns, along with some twenty others, are all that remain of the "Golden Church" of La Daurade. The church was famous for the gold mosaics that covered the niches and walls of its seven-sided sanctuary, hence its name, derived from deaurata, Latin for "gilded" . Rows of elegant columns framing the niches contributed to its lavish interior. Founded as a nunnery around 399, it was converted to a male monastic house by the 800s and destroyed in 1761.
AMICA Contributor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: New York, New York
ID Number: 21.172.1-2
Credit Line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, and Henry Walters and George Blumenthal Gifts, 1921
Copyright: Copyright ? 2002 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. All rights reserved.
Rights: http://www.metmuseum.org/education/er_photo_lib.asp
AMICA ID: MMA_.21.172.1-2
AMICA Library Year: 2002
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright (c) 2002 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. All Rights Reserved

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