Column Statue of Saint Hilary of Galeata ca. 1170-1200 North Italian This column statue, from the destroyed cloister of the Benedictine abbey of SaitEllero di Galeata, Forlí, represents the patron saint and founder of the abbey. Wearing a monastic habit and a tonsure (partially shaved head), Saint Hilary (478-558) holds a scroll inscribed in Latin affirming the rights of the abbey to income from a certain territory. Thus the statue of the founding saint functions as a charter image for the monastery and for the rights it claimed.. Column Statue of Saint Hilary of Galeata 463096
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