Altar screen, Skt Clemens Domkirke (St Clement's Cathedral), Århus, Djursland, Jylland (Jutland), Denmark.
Altar screen dates from 1479 and reveals a different scene for each major event of the Danish Lutheran calendar. St Clement's Cathedral was commenced as a Romanesque basilica by Peter Vagnesen in 1201 adjacent to the wooden church of St Clement's, the patron saint of seafarers. About 1150 the Venerable Niels, Prince of Denmark, died and was buried in St. Clement's churchyard. The offerings at his tomb facilitated the commencement of a new stone cathedral which was finished about 1263, but the greater part of it was burnt down in 1330. Peter Jensen Lodeliat (1386-95) and Bo Magnussen (1395-1423) were the prelates mainly concerned in the construction of the Gothic style building seen today. It has subsequently been restored in the late 19th and early and late 20th centuries.
Size: 3667px × 4764px
Location: Århus, Djursland, Jylland (Jutland), Denmark.
Photo credit: © Leslie Garland / LGPL / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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