Senlis Cathedral
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Notre-Dame de Senlis is a Gothic former cathedral in Senlis , Oise department , France. It was built between 1153 and 1191. The west facade was built around 1170, the south tower in the middle of the 13th century, and its upper floor is modeled on the towers of Laon Cathedral . The importance of the church lies in its “Marienportal”. The area of the Senlis diocese, which was repealed in the French Revolution , has belonged to the Beauvais diocese since 1822 .
West portal (Marienportal)
The tympanum from 1170 shows for the first time a “Coronation of Mary” instead of the “Last Judgment”, as was usual up to now. The increased cult of Mary testifies to an increasing 'humanization' of the divine. The Senliser Portal had a great influence on the sculpture of the coming period.
The lintel shows the "Entombment of Mary" on the left, and the "Body Elevation of Mary by Angels" on the right. In the diversity of postures, in the security and expressiveness of the movements, there is a grasp of the living that is much closer to animated life than before.
inner space
The nave shows a three-part wall elevation with galleries. The wall surface is emphasized. After a fire in 1504, the central nave was raised by six meters and the wall was rebuilt in the flamboyant style without a triforium. Only the lower parts inside and outside date from the 12th century.
The transept dates from the middle of the 13th century. The south transept facade was renewed - after the fire of 1504 - until 1534 and now resembles that in Beauvais and Évreux . The north transept facade followed in 1560.
In the central window in the middle of the gallery, the choir shows “Mary and Child with two angels” growing out of the service bundle, a baroque room composition based on the model of the Roman sculptor GL Berninis.
The axis chapel was redesigned around 1850.
The inner length of the church is 70.2 m, the height of the central nave 18 m, the width of the central nave 9.2 m.
organ
The first organ was built in 1647 by an unknown organ builder for the St. Vincent Abbey in Senlis, and installed in the cathedral in 1808. The instrument has been restored and expanded several times, including a. by the organ builder Joseph Merklin in 1874, and by the organ builder Roger Lambert in the years 1971–1974. Today it has 61 stops on four manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.
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literature
- Schäfke, Werner : France's Gothic Cathedrals . Cologne 1979 (DuMont Art Travel Guide), p. 75
- Simson, Otto von: The Middle Ages II . (= Propylaen Art History Vol. 6. Frankfurt am Main - Berlin [1972] 1990), Fig. 47;
- Sculpture. From antiquity to the Middle Ages. 8th century BC BC to 15th century [1991]. Edited by Jean-Luc Daval. Cologne 1999, p. 357 ff.
- Toman, Rolf (ed.): The art of the Gothic . Architecture - sculpture - painting. Cologne 1998, p. 306
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Coordinates: 49 ° 12 ′ 25 " N , 2 ° 35 ′ 10" E