Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1912)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New Haven, Yale University Press · leaf 250
min in honor; on the jambs of this south portal were depictedscenes from her life. Above the three portals, across the fa9ade,stretched the gallery of the kings of Judah, recalling the gene-alogy of the Viigin and Christ. The fa9ade of the transeptwhich faced the north, the region of cold and of… … THE LAST JUDGMENT panum of the central portal of the west fa9ade, over the cen-tral figure of Christ, was almost invariably displayed thesolemn drama of the Last Judgment, so placed that thelast rays of the setting sun might illumine this terriblescene of the last evening of the world — a scene…
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