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Christ en gloire et les douze apôtres

Maiestas Domine and the Twelve Apostles

Guillaume Bonnet
ca. 1853

Lyon / Christ en gloire et les douze apôtres

Description

The Church of Saint Peter of Vaise was built 1843-46 by the architect Tony Desjardins.

Lyon - Christ en gloire et les douze apôtres

The tympanum shows a relief of Christ pantocrator, holding a book with the text ego sum via veritas et vita (John 14:6, I am the way and the truth and the life), in a mandorla inscribed with the text in principio erat verbum, et verbum erat apud deum (John 1:1, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God). Christ is worshiped by two angels and the Tetramorph (the Four Evangelists represented their symbols: Eagle (John), Lion (Mark), Bull (Luke) and Angel (Matthew)).

Above the porch are twelve niches with statues of the Twelve Apostles, each holding a text scroll with his name.

Lyon - Christ en gloire et les douze apôtres

Sculptor

Guillaume Bonnet (Saint-Germain-Laval 1820 - Lyon 1873), French sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Séverine Penlou, Rôles et fonctions de la sculpture religieuse à Lyon de 1850 à 1914 (thèse Lyon 2, 2008) (PDF on-line), cat. 768 and 780.
Wikipedia, Église Saint-Pierre de Vaise.

Locatie (N 45°46'23" - E 4°48'28") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frra313; Photograph: 18 August 2018
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