The one hundred and twenty-three groups spread over the archivolt and the splaying capitals of the collegiate church were sculpted around 1200. It is obvious that their style is the fruit of a local tradition, even though it has certain affinities with that of certain French monuments of the end of the 12th century. The tympanum, now smooth, must have at this period been decorated by a Second Corning parousia, already obsolete in the Ile-de-France region. Nevertheless, the theological complexity of the iconography is very rare. The Last Judgment is associated here with the Augustinian doctrine of the ages of the world, and the infernal punishments draw the exceptional diversity of their iconography from Christian apocryphal visions and even...
In the second half of the 12th century, there is a fundamental change in the rapport between monumen...
The porch tower of Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire and the nave of Saint-Germain-des-Prés have a common histo...
Nine churches with ambulatories (5 completely preserved and 4 partially preserved) have been selecte...
The one hundred and twenty-three groups spread over the archivolt and the splaying capitals of the c...
Of some sixty groups of monumental sculptures produced in « Plantagenêt » France between 1180 and 12...
The scene of the Last Judgment of the Cathedral in Burgos situated in the north end of the transept,...
If we allow that the decorated porches of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe and San Pietro al Monte sopra Civ...
Prudence de Troyes in his Sermo de vita et morte gloriosae virginis Maurae mentions three pictures t...
If we allow that the decorated porches of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe and San Pietro al Monte sopra Civ...
Prudence de Troyes in his Sermo de vita et morte gloriosae virginis Maurae mentions three pictures t...
The nave of Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes was extended at some undocumented date, probably in the fîrst quar...
It is now generally accepted that Pentecost is in fact the theme of the tympanum of the central port...
Dans les cathédrales gothiques, la sculpture extérieure ne remplit pas seulement un rôle d’ornementa...
A rapid presentation of a Revelation cycle at Poitiers. The scenes are taken from between Rev. I, 1-...
A rapid presentation of a Revelation cycle at Poitiers. The scenes are taken from between Rev. I, 1-...
In the second half of the 12th century, there is a fundamental change in the rapport between monumen...
The porch tower of Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire and the nave of Saint-Germain-des-Prés have a common histo...
Nine churches with ambulatories (5 completely preserved and 4 partially preserved) have been selecte...
The one hundred and twenty-three groups spread over the archivolt and the splaying capitals of the c...
Of some sixty groups of monumental sculptures produced in « Plantagenêt » France between 1180 and 12...
The scene of the Last Judgment of the Cathedral in Burgos situated in the north end of the transept,...
If we allow that the decorated porches of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe and San Pietro al Monte sopra Civ...
Prudence de Troyes in his Sermo de vita et morte gloriosae virginis Maurae mentions three pictures t...
If we allow that the decorated porches of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe and San Pietro al Monte sopra Civ...
Prudence de Troyes in his Sermo de vita et morte gloriosae virginis Maurae mentions three pictures t...
The nave of Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes was extended at some undocumented date, probably in the fîrst quar...
It is now generally accepted that Pentecost is in fact the theme of the tympanum of the central port...
Dans les cathédrales gothiques, la sculpture extérieure ne remplit pas seulement un rôle d’ornementa...
A rapid presentation of a Revelation cycle at Poitiers. The scenes are taken from between Rev. I, 1-...
A rapid presentation of a Revelation cycle at Poitiers. The scenes are taken from between Rev. I, 1-...
In the second half of the 12th century, there is a fundamental change in the rapport between monumen...
The porch tower of Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire and the nave of Saint-Germain-des-Prés have a common histo...
Nine churches with ambulatories (5 completely preserved and 4 partially preserved) have been selecte...