Zucker: The images really were text and we are meant to read them, so let's go ahead and do exactly that. People were illiterate, this was how they learned these stories. The sermon in stone, as Bernard of Clairvaux said, the story of The Last Judgement, The faithful looking up at this doorway reading Of course, that is the subject of The Last Judgement. This is about rebirth,Ībout a kind of hope after death. This is the brother of Mary Magdalene who Christīrought back to life, according to the New Testament. The person who's bones are within the church, Inn's, they needed to eat, there was a real economic prosperity that surrounded important relics. The spiritual dimension, but there's also an economic dimension, these relics were economicĮngines for a community because you had these pilgrims come in, they needed to stay in They built a wholeĬhurch for their relics. They could heal the sick, that could offer blessings that might even shorten ones time in purgatory if you came and paid homage to them,Ĭhurches were refurbished or special reliquaries were made to house those relics, but in the case of Autun, this church was built This case, here at Autun the bones of St. Traveling all over Europe during this period to visit the relics, the parts of saints, in Important to remember that this was because of the Magnificent new cathedral at Autun and it's Harris: There's anĮnormous building boom of churches in Europe during this time and we begin to see monumental sculpture on the doorways of churches and inside the churches on the Capitals. It's at this time, aroundġ000 or just after that things begin to stabilize. Monumental sculpture in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome but after the 5th Century or so, monumental sculpture really fell away and this has been partīecause of the economic and political chaos of That is one of the first monumental sculptures to be made in the Medieval period.
It also includes Heaven, but I think people were, probably, spending much more time looking and fearing Hell. Looking up at the doorway of the Cathedral ofĪutun which represents, I think, the most terrifying image of The Last Judgement, of the damned in Hell that exists in art history.
Images that depict this must have really scared the medieval mind. Of spending an eternity in Hell is terrifyingĮven in the abstract, but to be confronted with
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