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VOUSSOIR À L'ANGE EN PROVENANCE DE L'ABBAYE DE CHARROUX
The item was sold for 11 700 €
Fees include commission and taxes.
VOUSSOIR À L'ANGE EN PROVENANCE DE L'ABBAYE DE CHARROUX
in carved oolitic limestone, although reused, some original elements remain, including the smiling head, the collar of the garment, the wing elements, the nimbus and the general shape of the angel in silhouette.
France, Poitou, 13th century.
From the Gothic portal of Charroux Abbey (Vienne), left (north) side of the portal archivolt. (Block cut away in the 19th century for re-use as a window lintel).
Height: 85 cm - Width: 46 cm
Depth : 23 cm
The style of the sculpture, the iconography, the type of limestone and the size of the block unquestionably link this sculpture to the central Gothic portal of the abbey church of Saint-Sauveur in Charroux (Vienne).
This sculpture, discovered in June 2016 in a private property in the Vienne department, completes the corpus of elements that made up the central portal, which was destroyed in the first half of the 19th century.
An inventory of the lapidary and an archaeological study of the Gothic portals at Charroux have enabled us to restore the western mass of the abbey church of Saint Sauveur. Protected by a vaulted, terraced porch, three Gothic portals had been integrated into the facade of the 11th-century Romanesque church in the mid-13th century. The depth of these portals was similar to that of the west portals of Amiens Cathedral, with a short barrel vault in front of the voussures covering the splayed openings. The central portal at Charroux featured four voussoirs after the tympanum, followed by two series of figures on the cradle:
- 1 angels
- 2 apostles
- 3 prophets
- 4 wise and foolish virgins
- 5 bishops and ecclesiastics
- 6 kings
Before this discovery, there were three angels in the first arch of the central portal: now there are four.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Laurent Prysmicki, "Découverte de deux sculptures figuratives du milieu du XIIIe siècle provenant du portail central de l'église abbatiale Saint-Sauveur de Charroux (Vienne)", 2016.
in carved oolitic limestone, although reused, some original elements remain, including the smiling head, the collar of the garment, the wing elements, the nimbus and the general shape of the angel in silhouette.
France, Poitou, 13th century.
From the Gothic portal of Charroux Abbey (Vienne), left (north) side of the portal archivolt. (Block cut away in the 19th century for re-use as a window lintel).
Height: 85 cm - Width: 46 cm
Depth : 23 cm
The style of the sculpture, the iconography, the type of limestone and the size of the block unquestionably link this sculpture to the central Gothic portal of the abbey church of Saint-Sauveur in Charroux (Vienne).
This sculpture, discovered in June 2016 in a private property in the Vienne department, completes the corpus of elements that made up the central portal, which was destroyed in the first half of the 19th century.
An inventory of the lapidary and an archaeological study of the Gothic portals at Charroux have enabled us to restore the western mass of the abbey church of Saint Sauveur. Protected by a vaulted, terraced porch, three Gothic portals had been integrated into the facade of the 11th-century Romanesque church in the mid-13th century. The depth of these portals was similar to that of the west portals of Amiens Cathedral, with a short barrel vault in front of the voussures covering the splayed openings. The central portal at Charroux featured four voussoirs after the tympanum, followed by two series of figures on the cradle:
- 1 angels
- 2 apostles
- 3 prophets
- 4 wise and foolish virgins
- 5 bishops and ecclesiastics
- 6 kings
Before this discovery, there were three angels in the first arch of the central portal: now there are four.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Laurent Prysmicki, "Découverte de deux sculptures figuratives du milieu du XIIIe siècle provenant du portail central de l'église abbatiale Saint-Sauveur de Charroux (Vienne)", 2016.