Columns of the Platerías façade Description The Platerías façade is the only one of the cathedral’s medieval façades that has survived to this day, although many interventions and additions from other cathedral spaces have modified its original appearance. In...
King David Description Master of the Porta Francígena. Ca. 1100 -1110. Granite The delicate image in relief of David the musician defeating the devil, today located on the left buttress of the Platerías façade, is part of the set of pieces that were once transferred...
Relief of female figures Description Attributed to a Béarnaise workshop active in Compostela. Ca. 1150. MarbleThis relief fragment currently preserved in the Cathedral Museum could have come from the neighbouring Monastery of Antealtares, where it was found in the...
Altar Maior of Xelmírez Description Bishop of Santiago, Diego Gelmírez, a fundamental figure for the cathedral and, among other things, a great promoter of the construction of the Romanesque Cathedral and patron of the arts, was consecrated on April 22, 1101. Five...
Woman holding bunches of grapes Description Master of the Porta Francígena. 1105-1112. Marble This relief fragment of a female with long curly hair who carries in each hand, close to her breasts, individual bunches of grapes would come from the Paradise façade....
The Month of February Description Workshop of the Master of Platerías. Ca. 1103-1110. Granite It is one of the reliefs belonging to the missing Paradise Façade of the cathedral that have been recovered. This facade was replaced in the central decades of the 18th...
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