Portail pangs
The Portail peint is a portal of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Lausanne .
history
With the south portal of Notre-Dame Cathedral, construction of the church was completed around 1235. The portal was supposed to be the entrance for pilgrims to the Marien-Chapel of the cathedral. The arcade-like porch was originally open on three sides. For structural reasons, however, the openings were still walled up in the 13th century. During the extensive restoration of the church building from 1872 onwards, the portal was reopened in 1880, but did not withstand the weather. The sculptures weathered and the statics of the portal was again at risk. Only the renewed restoration, completed in 2007 , provided the necessary protection of the building. The arcade arches are now closed with windows and the portal can only be entered from the nave.
The two sculpture ensembles of the Portail Peint are among the most valuable in Europe (according to the art historian Peter Kurmann). They were originally painted in color. The coronation of Mary is depicted in the tympanum , which is very different from other Gothic depictions, since the object of the work is not the coronation itself, but its preparation. In the four arches there are three sculptures each of people from the Old and New Testaments. The style of the portal and the sculptures show parallels to the cathedrals of Chartres and Besançon as well as to the Strasbourg cathedral .
Web links
- Lausanne brings its magnificent portal to light. Article in the Tages-Anzeiger from October 4, 2007, quoted from the web portal of the Catholic Church Switzerland
- Lausanne Cathedral at Mapping Gothic France (English)
Coordinates: 46 ° 31 '20.6 " N , 6 ° 38' 7.1" E ; CH1903: 538,358 / one hundred and fifty-two thousand six hundred and fifty-nine