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Oops! That URL got truncated coming out of my browser. Herewith the
correcct locations:
http://architecture.relig.free.fr/images/strasbourg/eportail_centre_tympan.jpg
TinyURL for this: http://tinyurl.com/4hj7c.
Sorry about that,
John Dillon
On Tuesday, March 15, 2005, at 10:09 pm, I wrote:
> Here's a direct URL for the Passion on that facade at Strasbourg:
>
ttp://architecture.relig.free.fr/images/strasbourg/eportail_centre_tympan.jpg
> TinyURL for this: http://tinyurl.com/659ng
>
> Best,
> John Dillon
>
> On Tuesday, March 15, 2005, at 9:04 pm, Marjorie Greene wrote:
> > The only other scene I've seen of this sort - sort of - is a much
> > later one,
> > at Strasbourg:
> > http://architecture.relig.free.fr/strasbourg.htm
> > Scroll down for the central west facade scene: the Passion from
> > start to
> > finish. Christ carrying his cross triumphantly is directly over
> the
> > crucifixion scene, and the crucifixion cross is planted over
> Adam's
> > skeleton. Perhaps that additional superfluous (Italian) cross
> > is/was meant
> > to represent the triumph of the cross. But as the page said (much
> > more
> > elegantly), someone did a number on that painting. It looks as
> > though it was
> > effected by a drunk committee.
> > MG
> >
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