Work Record
Class [controlled]:
architecture sculpture
European art
*Work
Type [link]:
relief (sculpture)
*Title/Name: Last
Judgment
Title/Name: Tympanum,
South Transept, Chartres Title
Type: alternate
*Creator
Display: unknown French
*Role
[link]: sculptors [link]:
unknown French
*Creation
Date: ca. 1220 [controlled]:
Earliest: 1215 Latest:
1225
*Subject
[links]:
religion and mythology Last Judgment
(Christian iconography) Jesus Christ
(Christian iconography) Virgin Mary
(Christian iconography) Saint John
the Evangelist (Christian iconography)
Saint Michael (Christian iconography)
salvation damnation
souls Symbols of the Passion (Christian
iconography)
Style [link]:
Gothic
Culture [link]:
French
*Current
Location [link]: South
Transept, Chartres Cathedral (Chartres, France)
*Measurements:
unavailable
*Materials
and Techniques: limestone, carved
in high and low relief
Material [links]:
limestone Technique
[links]: high relief
low relief
Description: The
central portal depicts the Last Judgment. Christ
the Judge is flanked by Mary, the Queen of Heaven,
and John the Evangelist. Christ displays his Passion
wounds; angels carry the instruments of his Passion,
the column, lance, crown of thorns, scourge, nails,
and cross. The lintel depicts Saint Michael weighing
and separating the Saved and the Damned. The iconography
complements the two to either side: The left portal
portrays the Martyrs, tympanum portrays the martyrdom
of Saint Stephen; right portal portrays the Confessors,
tympanum portrays good deeds of Saint Martin and
Saint Nicholas.
Description Source
[link]: Kidson, Peter, in Chartres Cathedral:
With source material and selected critical writings.
Edited by Robert Branner. London: Thames & Hudson,
1969, Page:
202 ff.
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