Gothic Crucifixion fresco painted in the 1500s. In the Chapelle des fonts baptismaux, Cathédrale Saint-Pierre, at Beauvais, France.
Beauvais, Oise, Hauts-de-France, France: Gothic Crucifixion fresco painted in the 16th century above the marble altar in the Baptismal Chapel or Chapelle des fonts baptismaux inside the unfinished Gothic Roman Catholic Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Beauvais, or Cathedral of Saint Peter. The Crucifixion shares the lower east wall of the chapel with overpainted fragmentary remnants of a 14th century fresco probably depicting the entrance into the city of the chapel’s founder, the papal legate Cardinal Jean Cholet or de Nointel (died 1291). The Cathedral was founded in 1225. It was consecrated 50 years later, in 1275, but in 1284, parts of the choir vaulting collapsed. A 153 m (502 ft) tower briefly made the Cathedral the tallest structure in the world, but when this too collapsed in 1573, work halted and the building was never completed. Today, Beauvais Cathedral comprises no more than a 16th century transept and choir, with the apse and seven 13th century polygonal apsidal chapels accessed by an ambulatory. Beauvais lies in northern France, in the historical region of Picardy, stretching north from the suburbs of Paris to the Bay of the Somme on the English Channel. The Cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Beauvais, Noyon and Senlis.
Size: 2592px × 3872px
Location: Cathedral of St Peter, Beauvais, Oise, Hauts-de-France, France
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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