Christ en Majesté, assis dans un cadre porté par des archanges. Sculpté au début des années 1000 après JC dans un linteau de marbre blanc au-dessus d'une porte de l'église abbatiale de Saint-Génis-des Fontaines, Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie, France. Le linteau est la plus ancienne sculpture romane connue en France à être datée par son inscription, avec la date de sa création, 1019-1020 AD, indiquée par deux lignes d'enregistrement latin que le monastère a été fondé dans la 24ème année du règne du «roi Robert» (Robert II, qui a gouverné les Francs de 996 à 1031 AD).

• Contributeur: Terence Kerr / Alamy Banque D'Images
• ID de l’image: 2BXGR93
• Taille du fichier: 34,5 MB (3,1 MB Téléchargement compressé)
• Autorisations: Modèle - non | Propriété - non
• Dimensions: 4256 x 2832 px | 36 x 24 cm | 14,2 x 9,4 inches | 300dpi
• Date de la prise de vue: 28 décembre 2007
• Lieu: 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

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