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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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