Images of Medieval Art and Architecture

France: Vézelay
Benedictine Abbey Church of Sante-Marie-Madeleine


Tympanum of north portal in narthex

Above: The Ascension

Below: The Apparitions of Christ (center: at Emmaus)



 

TympanuM: Ascension

Matthew 2:11
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Meeting on the road to Emmaus

Luke 1:39-56.


 

Left Capital: 

Left: Bird with the body of a serpent

Perhaps basilisk 
See Capital 74 of Nave

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with Miscellaneous  subject matter

Right : Angel conquers a demon


 

Right Capital

Left: Angel conquers a demon

Two tones of Plain-Chant

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with symbolic subject matter


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Created by G. David Donahue, July 1997
Updated by Jane Vadnal, December, 1997