Catalan School Gallery

Altar Frontal with scenes from the life of Saint Clement, from the Church of Sant Climent de Taull

XIR498166 Altar Frontal with scenes from the life of Saint Clement, from the Church of Sant Climent de TaAOEll, Vall de Boi, Alta RibagorA?a, 2nd half 13th century (tempera on panel) by Catalan School, (13th century); 92x168 cm; Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; (add.info.: Pope Clement I (fl.96) fourth Pope; L to R: scenes from his life showing him blessing the kneeling Theodora, wife of the Roman prefect, Sisinnius while, behind her, three Roman soldiers go in search of Clement to arrest him; on the right is the scene where the saint, banished from Rome to the Chersonese and set to work in a stone quarry, finds that the prisoners are suffering from lack of water; he sees a lamb, strikes the ground where the lamb stood and releases a stream of water; this resulted in the conversion to Christianity of many prisoners and led to the martyrdom of Saint Clement shown below; he was tied to a stone and thrown in the sea to drown in the Black Sea;); Spanish, out of copyright

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