Fuentiduena Chapel

Introduction

The Fuentiduena Chapel is a complete 12th-century Spanish Romanesque chapel installed at The Met Cloisters in New York, originally from the village of Fuentidueña in Segovia, Spain, and transported stone by stone to be rebuilt in New York. Built around the mid-12th century for the local parish, it exemplifies Spanish Romanesque rural church architecture with a stone barrel vault, semicircular arches, and massive walls. In the 1930s it was purchased with funding from John D. Rockefeller Jr. and reinstalled at the Cloisters as one of the core medieval spaces. The interior houses medieval frescoes, sculpture, and religious objects, with narrow windows casting light that creates a solemn medieval atmosphere. It is one of the Met's most immersive galleries, transporting visitors to a medieval Spanish village.

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