Capital
Hungarian Sculptor, Reichenberger József (cast maker)
- Artist
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Hungarian Sculptor
Reichenberger József
(cast maker)
Budapest
- Dated
- 12th century (original), 1905 (cast)
- Classification
- sculpture, plaster cast
- Medium
- plaster cast
- Dimensions
- 41 × 137 cm
- Inv.no.
- Rg.92
- Department
- Sculptures - Plaster casts
- Current Location of the Original Artwork
- Hungary, now: Romania, Gyulafehérvár, now: Alba Iulia, Cathedral of Saint Michael
Capital of a half-column decorated with wide, bowing down palm leaves, from the cathedral of Gyulafehérvár (today Alba Iulia, Romania). Decorated with figural and foliage ornamentation, these Romanesque capitals date from the twelfth- and thirteenth-century period of the so-called second cathedral. Commissioned by the museum in 1905, the cast was made by József Reichenberger in Budapest. It was built into the pillar of the Romanesque Hall in 1910.