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Lintel, Abbaye Saint-Andre-de-Sorede, Saint-Andre, Pyrenees-Orientales, France

Christ blessing with angels, detail from a lintel, 11th century, Romanesque sculpture in white marble, at the Abbaye Saint-Andre-de-Sorede, a Romanesque Benedictine monastery, rebuilt 1121, in Saint-Andre, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. This lintel is by the same sculptor of that in the abbey church of St Michael, now the parish church of Saint-Genis-des-Fontaines, at the Abbaye de Saint-Genis-des-Fontaines. The lintel is carved in bas-relief with Christ blessing with 4 angels and 4 evangelists. The church is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Christ blessing with angels, detail from a lintel, 11th century, Romanesque sculpture in white marble, at the Abbaye Saint-Andre-de-Sorede, a Romanesque Benedictine monastery, rebuilt 1121, in Saint-Andre, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. This lintel is by the same sculptor of that in the abbey church of St Michael, now the parish church of Saint-Genis-des-Fontaines, at the Abbaye de Saint-Genis-des-Fontaines. The lintel is carved in bas-relief with Christ blessing with 4 angels and 4 evangelists. The church is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen