El claustro de la catedral de León constituye un conjunto arquitectónico, escultórico y pictórico de extraordinaria riqueza. Construido a finales del siglo XIII, su complejo programa iconográfico está dirigido a una sociedad asimismo compleja y dividida. Además de la serie de sepulcros, casi todos pertenecientes al clero, que ordenaban mandas de carácter litúrgico, como misas y procesiones. En el siglo XV se añadió el conjunto pictórico encargado a Nicolás Francés. Aunque no bien conservado, el texto conservado del Salmo II, que se rezaba el Viernes Santo, nos informa de la existencia de procesiones en Semana Santa.
The cloister of the cathedral of Leon stands out from the panorama of Gothic Art as an extraordinarily rich ensemble of architecture, sculpture and painting. Erected in the last years of the XIII century, its complex iconographic programme is addressed to a similarly complex society, divided into different classes, from which the cathedral clergy as the protagonist. In addition to the sponsorship of their funerary monuments, clerics laid out a series of liturgical dispositions such as the requests for funeral masses and processions. In the XV century the cloister is enriched with the painted cycle commissioned to Nicolas Frances. Notwithstanding its damaged condition, the theme can be identified as referring to Feasts of the Liturgical Year. The preserved text from Psalm II, which was read on Good Friday, informs us of the existence of processions linked to de Passion during Easter. It is therefore reasonable to conclude that other processions would have taken place throughout the year.
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