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Textile Fragment with Elephant

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Este fragmento de textil ilustra las sedas estampadas de vivos colores que sirvieron de inspiración a los pintores de los murales de San Baudelio. Antes de ser dividido, el tejido estaba probablemente decorado con un diseño repetitivo de círculos, cada uno de ellos con un elefante inscrito, dispuestos por pares con los animales frente a frente de un modo similar a los dos círculos visibles sobre la pintura del dromedario en San Baudelio. Las imágenes de textiles como este pudieron servir también de inspiración para la pintura de un elefante procedente de San Baudelio (actualmente incluida en la colección del Museo del Prado). Esta seda, probablemente tejida en el Mediterráneo oriental, terminó en una iglesia de Aragón, lo que evidencia la vitalidad del comercio marítimo.







This textile fragment represents the kind of colorful, patterned silks that inspired the San Baudelio mural painters. Before being divided, the cloth would have featured a repeating pattern of roundels framing single elephants, arranged to face each other in pairs, in a manner similar to the paired roundels above the camel painting at San Baudelio. The imagery on this textile could have also inspired an elephant painting originally from San Baudelio (now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid). Likely woven in the eastern Mediterranean, this silk ended up in a church in Aragon, attesting to the vitality of trade across the sea.

Textile Fragment with Elephant, Silk, samite

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