Ribbed bonnet

Other figures wear this headgear in the sculpted décor of the cloister, notably in the banquet scene of the Marriage at Cana.


Détail du chapiteau des Noces de Cana : le Marié
Detail of the capital from the Marriage at Cana, inv. 2007.1.32
Photo © Musées de Châlons-en-Champagne, Patrick Martin


Another head of a man wearing a ribbed bonnet, presumed to originate from a column statue at the collegiate church of Notre-Dame-en-Vaux, is preserved at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

Head of a man wearing a ribbed bonnet, between 1150 and 1200,
Paris, Louvre Museum, RF 1101
Photo © Marc Gil

Although not common, this headdress is found in other locations to which the sculptors of Notre-Dame-en-Vaux seem to refer, such as at Saint-Denis or Chartres.


Antoine Benoist, Drawing of a column statue
from the cloister of Saint-Denis, BNF fr. 15634, no. 38 f. 422


Prophet with a ribbed bonnet on the Royal Portal of Chartres Cathedral,
circa 1140-1145, Photo © Marc Gil

Another representation from the mid-12th century is that of Saint Bénigne of Dijon.


Head of Saint Bénigne, mid-12th century,
Archaeological Museum of Dijon, photo © Marc Gil