Sculpture of a Kneeling Knight or King

North Spanish

On view at The Met Cloisters in Gallery 02

The Latin Chronicles (ca. 1212) of the kings of Castile proclaims: “On our side, Christ, God, and Man. On the Moors’, the Faithless, and Damned Apostle, Muhammad.” The Christian reconquest of the Iberian peninsula, from 1212 onward, became one of the defining political and cultural events of western Europe. Perhaps kneeling in supplication, this king—entirely covered in mail—comes from an unknown setting.

Sculpture of a Kneeling Knight or King, Sandstone, North Spanish

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Sculpture of a Kneeling Knight or King, Sandstone, North Spanish
Sculpture of a Kneeling Knight or King, Sandstone, North Spanish
Sculpture of a Kneeling Knight or King, Sandstone, North Spanish

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