Capital
Reichenberger József (cast maker)
- Artist
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Reichenberger József
(cast maker)
Budapest
- Dated
- 12th century (original), 1905 (cast)
- Classification
- sculpture, plaster cast
- Medium
- plaster cast
- Dimensions
- 42 × 141 cm
- Inv.no.
- Rg.93
- 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 budding palm leaves, oak tree leaves and figural motifs, 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 in the pillar of the Romanesque Hall in 1910.