Les bons triomphes du mal : un visage grotesque avec une rangée de dents massives, symboliquement écrasées sous les pieds de Sainte-Hélène de Constantinople. Dans le portail nord de la fin de 1100s AD roman Basilique Saint-Just, consacré en 1200 AD à Valcabrère, Occitanie, sud-ouest de la France.
4256 x 2832 px | 36 x 24 cm | 14,2 x 9,4 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
23 décembre 2007
Lieu:
Valcabrère, Occitanie, France.
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Cette image peut avoir des imperfections car il s’agit d’une image historique ou de reportage.
Valcabrère, Occitanie, France: the sculpted feet of Saint Helena of Constantinople, finder of the True Cross in Jerusalem and mother of the first Christian Roman Emperor, Constantine the Great, rest on a grotesque face with a row of massive teeth: 12th century Romanesque sculpture symbolising the triumph of good over evil by the entrance to an ancient Pyrenean basilica. The pillar statue of St Helena stands with three figures of early Christian martyrs in the north portal of the Basilique Saint-Just-de-Valcabrère, built in the late-1100s on a former Roman necropolis in the River Garonne valley, below the village and cathedral of Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges in the central Pyrenees. St Helena is represented here because the basilica is one of the French churches to retain a fragment of the True Cross, believed to be the cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified. The three other statues are of St Stephen, the first Christian martyr, and of the basilica’s patron saints, Pastor and Just or Justus, young schoolboys beheaded by the Romans after confessing their Christian faith. The basilica is a superb example of Romanesque medieval architecture and sculpture. It stands apart from the village of Valcabrère on the former burial ground of the Roman settlement of Lugdunum Convenarum. Many Gallo-Roman architectural fragments were re-used in its construction. D1146.B3678
