Adam eats the forbidden fruit as Eve, watched by the coiled serpent in the Garden of Eden, covers her nakedness: square view of medieval Romanesque Fall of Man sculpture on 1100s capital in monastic cloister attached to the cathédrale Notre-Dame de Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, Haute-Garonne, Occitanie, France, a former Roman Catholic cathedral, now a parish church, that is also called cathédrale Sainte-Marie.
Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, Occitanie, France: square format detail view of Adam eating the Forbidden Fruit as Eve covers her nakedness and the Serpent, coiled around the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, watches their loss of innocence in the Garden of Eden. This Romanesque sculpture illustrating the Fall of Man is among the carved capitals capping rows of double cylindrical columns in the galleries or walks of the monastic cloister built in the 1100s or 12th century on the south side of the cathédrale Notre-Dame. The cloister was built on uneven ground above ancient ramparts and it has an irregular shape. Its southern gallery is unique amongst Romanesque cloisters in having an open south side, which offers superb views of the Pyrenean foothills. The east, west and south galleries are formed by round arches resting on the double columns and capitals. The most expressive design is on a pillar sculpted with depictions of the four evangelists and their symbols. The northern walk, known as the Gallery of Tombs, was rebuilt in the 1400s and 1500s. The former cathedral (its diocese was abolished in 1793) was founded by an Augustinian canon, Bertrand de l’Isle Jourdain. He built the cathedral and its cloister as Bishop of Comminges and was canonised in 1222. St Bertrand is buried in the cathedral’s sanctuary in a magnificent painted mausoleum. The cathedral and its village, built amid the remains of an ancient Gallo-Roman colony, became an important stage for pilgrims following the Camino de Santiago or Way of Saint James to Santiago de Compostela. It is now part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site devoted to the Camino de Santiago in France.
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Location: Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, Occitanie, France.
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
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