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Cherubs, Altarpiece, Capella de San Pere, Cathedral of St Mary, Tortosa, Catalonia, Spain

Sculptural detail of cherubs holding back curtains, detail from the altarpiece, 1731, by Cristofor Cros, commissioned by canon Pere Vidal, in the Capella de San Pere, in the Cathedral of St Mary, designed by Benito Dalguayre in Catalan Gothic style and begun 1347 on the site of a Romanesque cathedral, consecrated 1447 and completed in 1757, Tortosa, Catalonia, Spain. The cathedral has 3 naves with chapels between the buttresses and an ambulatory with radial chapels. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Sculptural detail of cherubs holding back curtains, detail from the altarpiece, 1731, by Cristofor Cros, commissioned by canon Pere Vidal, in the Capella de San Pere, in the Cathedral of St Mary, designed by Benito Dalguayre in Catalan Gothic style and begun 1347 on the site of a Romanesque cathedral, consecrated 1447 and completed in 1757, Tortosa, Catalonia, Spain. The cathedral has 3 naves with chapels between the buttresses and an ambulatory with radial chapels. Picture by Manuel Cohen