Capitolo 83
Christ as the church to Rentals Christ understood of year
1150; for the glories of many Christ they were, and the Rentals Christ
it is one. Whatever Christ is been able to be in the other churches, here on
this portal, he proposes him to his/her flock as the herald of
salvation alone. Among the whole image of these three street of access,
there is not any suggestion of fear, punishment or the damnation, and this is the
note of the whole time. Before 1200, the Church seems not to have
felt the need to habitually appeal to terror; the promise of the hope
and happiness was enough; also the portal to Autun that exposes a
Last Judgment, belonged to Saint Lazarus the test and symbol of
resurrection. One hundred years later, every portal of church showed
Christ not as Savior but as Judge, and He presided on a Last
You judge to Bourges and Amiens, and here on the southern portal, where
the desperation of the accursed one is the evident joy of the artist, if it is
you don't sometimes protect a small his/her joke that is worse. To Rentals
Christ is identified with Your Mother, the spirit of love and the grace,
and Your Church is the Triumphant Church.
Not only it is absent fear; there is not also a suggestion of the pain;
there is not a martyr with the symbol of his/her martyrdom; and what is
even more impressive, in the graven life of Christ, from the
The nativity to the Ascension that decorates the capitals of the columns,
the only scene that has been omitted it is the Crucifixion. There, as
the artists seem everywhere indeed in this portal, to have gone
out of their way to avoid a suggestion to suffer. Them
you/he/she has painted Christ and Your Mother in all the other events of them
life; they has represented evangelists; apostles; the twenty-four
old men of the apocalypse; saints, prophets king, queens and
principles, from the result; the signals of the zodiac, and also the seven
letters: the grammar, rhetoric, dialectics, arithmetic, geometry,
astronomy and music; everything is there except uneasiness.
Perhaps Ours Mrs. of Rentals it was known to be particularly attractive and