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Cordoba Province possesses three outstanding sculptural
works, which have great historic as well as artistic value. The
Archaeological Museum of Cordoba contains the Iberian Lion of Nueva
Carteya, originally part of a funereal monument, and one of the
finest examples of Iberian Art; as well as a fine example of Egyptian
Fatimid art, the Madinat Azahara Fawn (10th century), a unique,
elegantly proportioned animal figure, in bronze. A 3rd century AD
early Christian Sarcophagus is to be found in the Alcázar
of the Christian Kings.
The Cathedral is home to The Last Supper by Pablo
de Céspedes (1595), a remarkable painting, full of strength
and vigour, from the brush of this major artist of the Andalucian
Romantic School. The Fine Arts Museum has, among other fine paintings,
works such as The Inquisition, by Antonio del Castillo (1649), a
baroque artist of great intensity.
The province's many monumental fountains include
the extraordinary Fountain of the King, by Remigio del Mármol
(1802) in the lovely town of Priego; the baroque sculpture, Christ
Tied to a Column, by Pedro Roldán
(1675), in the Church of Santiago at Lucena; and a remarkable 17th
century figure of Christ, a wooden, painted sculpture, in the church
of Guadalupe at Baena.
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