Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . spring from attached this porch or narthex a magnificent flight ofsteps reaching from side to side rises with dignity to theportals of the church\ The central doorway resemblesthe great portal of Vezelay. The tympanum contains afigure of our Lord in a vesica which is held up ratherungracefully by two angels at the foot, and two moreflying upside down at the head. The scene is theresurrection ; angels are blowing the last trump; otherangels are receiving the blessed spirits ; Michael weighsthem in a balance, and devils are carrying off the d
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . spring from attached this porch or narthex a magnificent flight ofsteps reaching from side to side rises with dignity to theportals of the church\ The central doorway resemblesthe great portal of Vezelay. The tympanum contains afigure of our Lord in a vesica which is held up ratherungracefully by two angels at the foot, and two moreflying upside down at the head. The scene is theresurrection ; angels are blowing the last trump; otherangels are receiving the blessed spirits ; Michael weighsthem in a balance, and devils are carrying off the damned,and thrusting them into the mouth of hell. A similardivision of the good and the bad is going on below in astring of little figures along the lintel. A series of textsin Leonine Hexameters on the upper margin of the lintelis interrupted in the middle by the words :— GISHBERTVS nOC FEdT 1 Mr Hamerton says the steps are modern, and that before they weremade the ascent was by a slope of bare earth. CH. xxii] FRANCE—BURGUNDY 111. Fig. 97- I 12 FRANCE—BURGUNDY [ch. xxii Autun Thesculpture S. Jean,Autun Valencecathedral Of the including orders in the arch, one has a scroll,and the other little circles as at Vezelay with signs ofthe Zodiac and other figures in them. The columns inthe jambs are diapered and scaled, and carry storied capitals, and the central pier, like that at Vezelay, hascolumns and capitals below, and figures above, in thiscase a bishop supported by two angels. The sculpture at Autun does not appear to be by thesame hand as that at Vezelay, and Gislebert, or Gilbertseems to have reverted somewhat more closely to theByzantine style in his finely folded and convoluteddraperies. The figures at Autun are even more attenuatedand drawn out than those at Vezelay, some of the angelsbeing between lo and 11 heads high. The bishop onthe central pillar is in a more advanced style, but thewhole of this pier seems modern, and though it no doubtpreserves generally the o
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