Gerona - Cathedral

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they are still remarkable for their variety of subject-matter, including both Biblical themes and scenes from popular life. Under the vaulting are numerous grave slabs. Above the cloister rears the stump of a Romanesque tower, articulated by single and double-arched windows.

On the upper floor of the cloister are a fine collection of richly embroidered vestments. From one of the galleries there is an attractive view of the gardens to the north, the little Romanesque church of San Pedro de Galligans and a fragmentary stretch of the old town walls.

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ring of chapels, is in accordance with the classical canon of forms. The high altar, under a baldachin, has a gilded retablo, a masterpiece of 14th century silversmith's work. Beyond this is the bishop's throne, a stone seat embellished with friezes of arabesques which is popularly known as the Throne of Charlemagne.

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Madonna of Montserrat, and an illuminated manuscript of the "Apocalypse" (975). In the second room are a Late Gothic cross (1503-07) set with pearls and enamel inlays and a 14th century cross with champlevé enamel decoration. In a wall case in Room 3 are silver book covers (14th C.), and in the case in the center of the room a fine collection of 15th Century sculpture. Here too are a Bible which belonged to Charles V (14th C. Italian work) and two fine altar frontals (Nos. 41 and 42), one (14th C.) with gold and silver embroidery, the other (13th C.) with 21 scenes from the life of Christ.

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Christian models (as is shown, for example, by the beardless figure of Christ as Creator of the world in the middle of the cycle, surrounded by the Latin text "And God said, Let there be light, and there was light").