Santa Magdalena de Vezelay is one of the masterpieces of French Romanesque later. Building started towards 1120, its nave is completed twenty years later. The cover that we see in the picture is that of the narthex and is one of the key pieces of Romanesque sculpture.
Your eardrum is a classic final trial scene in low relief, so widespread in the eardrums of many temples of this period. In its center, a seated Christ in majestic attitude, surrounded by an almond or almond with legs bent to the left. The Christ appears to show the viewer, with your palms open and arms outstretched, the two roads that follow the soul (represented on the lintel of the door) when the time of the final confrontation with divine justice. In the tympanum, under Christ, the Apostles with books in their hands, receiving the Holy Spirit, represented as light beams emerging from the fingers of Christ. In the radio boxes of the archivolts will represent the people who may be mission. In the mullion appears monumental figure of San Juan Bautista. The archivolts are decorated with symbols of the signs zodiac.
are unnatural images as representations usually in the Romanesque period. Tympani figures are grouped on either side of the image of Christ-centered and have a provision almost juxtaposed although given the time of your bill, next to 1140, the figures will communicate with each other as regularly in the Gothic period.
Vezelay is one of the last works of French Romanesque. Its construction was sponsored by Bernard of Clairvaux, St. Bernard, who heavily promoted the Second Crusade from his pulpit. The building has three naves and a treaty provision at the time. What all of us remember it is the arrangement of the segments of the central nave displayed alternately colored red and white with their vision immediately reminds us of the mosque of Cordoba.
