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Mural at the Monasterio de las Huelgas
PHOTOGRAPHS
photograph (b+w); painting
Photo Club
Europe: Spain, Burgos
1933
paper
overall: 124 x 176 mm

Early 20th century black and white photograph depicting Alfonso VIII, founder of the convent, presenting the keys to the Lady Abbess and nuns. The crowd includes a nun and a cardinal wearing nose spectacles. Reproduction of a 16th c. (?) Spanish mural painting depciting event supposedly taking place in the year 1187.


1999.5607

BOA Purchase, 1933



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