Capitals with mermaid and fish

13th century

Granite

Unknown provenance

MAS L 24 e 25

Romanesque carving of mermaids, supernatural creatures, half women, half fish, which appear in the medieval bestiary as representations of human weaknesses, attracting and captivating the soul of a Christian by charms and flattery and then dragging him into sin. It is the eternal struggle between righteousness and sin, good and evil.