Leon Cathedral. Door "Virgen del Dado"

The central doorway, called “de la Virgen del Dado” was carried out in the last decade of the 13th century and still preserves most of the polychromy, from the 15th century. In the tympanum, a Christ blesses from the mystical almond held by the angels and flanked by the Evangelists. In the mullion appears the sculpture of the Virgen del Dado, named after the legend about a soldier who threw his dice, due to an adversity in the game, towards the face of the Child, who miraculously bled (in front of her is represented the miracle in a stained glass window). On the jambs appear Pablo, Pedro, Santiago, Mateo and the Annunciation to Mary. The right cover is used as an entrance and exit to the room that leads to the cloister. The tympanum is not sculptural, but has a Gothic painting of the Virgin with the Child. In the archivolts there are vegetable figures. It also preserves the polychromy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%C3%B3n_Cathedral 237 photos from an iPhone Xs processed automatically with Trnio Plus