Christus in Majestät, sitzt in einem von Erzengeln getragenen Rahmen. Er wurde Anfang der 1000er Jahre n. Chr. zu einem Sturz aus weißem Marmor geformt, über einem Eingang zur Abteikirche Saint-Génis-des Fontaines, Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie, Frankreich. Der Sturz ist die früheste bekannte romanische Skulptur in Frankreich, die durch seine Inschrift datiert wurde. Das Datum seiner Entstehung, 1019-1020 n. Chr., wird durch zwei lateinische Zeilen angezeigt, dass das Kloster im 24. Jahr der Regierungszeit von „König Robert“ (Robert II., der die Franken von 996 bis 1031 n. Chr. regierte).
4256 x 2832 px | 36 x 24 cm | 14,2 x 9,4 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
28. Dezember 2007
Ort:
Former abbey church, Saint-Génis-des-Fontaines, Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie, France
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Saint-Génis-des-Fontaines, Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie, France: Christ in Majesty, seated within a pearled mandorla or aureola frame born by archangels, is cut into the white marble lintel over the doorway to the church that once served the Benedictine abbey jointly dedicated to saints Genesius and Michael. The lintel is the earliest known Romanesque sculpture in France to be dated by its inscription, with the date 1019-1020 AD indicated by two lines of Latin. The inscription records: “In the 24th year of the reign of King Robert, William, abbot by the grace of God, commissioned this work in the monastery called the Fountains, in honour of Saint Genesius the hermit.” ‘King Robert’ refers to Robert II, who ruled the Franks from 996 to 1031 AD. The abbey in the eastern Pyrenees was founded in about 780 AD, during the reign of Charlemagne. It was destroyed by the Normans in the 9th century, but was rebuilt and enlarged, with a richly sculpted Romanesque marble cloister added in the late 1200s. Foundation stones laid in the 8th century are visible within the former abbey church, which today retains its dedication to St-Michel (St Michael). The monastery declined and in the early 1500s, it united with a Catalan abbey near Barcelona. The monks rejected French domination after the 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees, but the French Revolution caused its final fall, with the buildings and land nationalised in 1796. Although the abbey church became a parish church in 1846, the cloister was dismantled, with much of it sold to an antiques dealer. Some columns and piers ended up either in the Louvre Museum in Paris or the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the USA. Determined campaigns in the 1970s and 1980s eventually saw all parts of the cloister returned to the village and re-installed in their original locations. D1199.B4323
