PROVINCE OF CORDOBA.

In Córdoba there are three pieces of sculpture of the first order, for their artistic, as well as historical value.

The Iberian Lion of Nueva Carteya, which belonged to a funerary monument, is one of the most beautiful examples of Iberian art (Archaeological Museum). The Madinat Azahara Fawn (lOth Century) is a unique figure of an animal, of very elegant proportions.

It is made of bronze and related to Fatimid art in Egypt (Archaeological Museum). The third is the 3rd Century AD Paleochristian Sarcophagus in the Alcázar of the Christian Kings.

The Last Supper (Cathedral) by Pablo de Céspedes (1595), a key painter of Andalusian Romanticism, is a very remarkable painting, full of strength and vigour. The Collection of drawings and Calvary in the Prison or of the Inquisition by Antonio del Castillo (1649), is the most intense baroque painting in Cordoba.

It is located in the Fine Arts Museum and demonstrates the careful and synthetic form of this artist of great capacity.

Among many others around the province, the Fountain of the King by Remigio del Mármol (1802) in Priego, a curious and unfrequent old-world composition, the Christ Tied to a Column by Pedro Roldán (1675), an excellent baroque carving in the church of Santiago at Lucena and a remarkable 17th Century figure of Christ in carved polychrome wood, in the church of Guadalupe at Baena.