Fawn of Medina Azahara
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
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We are faced with a bronze sculpture of the period of the Caliphate of Cordoba, about half of the X, which was found in Medina Azahara later moving to the Monastery of San Jerónimo. FIGS
is a zooforma (which takes animal form) that probably served as a source supplier of decorating the gardens of Azahara Media. The sculpture rests on a pedestal and under the stand pipe through which enter the water and after passing through the body, would through the mouth.
sculpture is thought that this was not alone, but was accompanied by several sculptures in the same way, forming a group of sculptures in the fountain, as the famous Fountain of the Lions of the Alhambra in Granada. The sculpture shows we worked entirely with a thin cut by a chisel, representing stems and leaves very schematic inserted in circles. 
This sculpture came to the Monastery of St. Jerome in the XVIth like many ruins of Medina Azag, and who served for green building and raise the Monastery, which is why this statue was found adorning a fountain. As a curiosity to mention that there are several similar sculptures throughout the world as the Bronze Deer National Archaeological Museum of origin also Cordoba, the Museo Nazionale Bargello in Florence, a tap of the Cathedral of Pisa or two sculptures shaped like peacocks in the Louvre Museum and the Pinacoteca Nazinale of Cagliari.
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