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The Cathedral of Saint Lazarus of Autun (French: Cathédrale Saint-Lazare d'Autun), commonly known as Autun Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Autun and a national monument of France. Famous for its Cluniac inspiration and its Romanesque sculptures by Gislebertus, it is a highlight of Romanesque art [1] in Burgundy.
Last Judgment by Gislebertus in the west tympanum at the Autun Cathedral The Temptation of Eve, detail, now at the Musée Rolin. Gislebertus, Giselbertus or Ghiselbertus, sometimes "of Autun" (flourished in the 12th century), was a French Romanesque sculptor, whose decoration (about 1120–1135) of the Cathedral of Saint Lazare at Autun, France – consisting of numerous doorways, tympanums ...
The Eucharist Triptych is an oil on panel painting by Grégoire Guérard, from 1515, commissioned for Autun Cathedral. The central panel shows the Last Supper, with the wings showing Abram meeting Melchizedek and the fall of the manna. On the reverse of the wings are grisaille images of the Madonna and Child and of John the Baptist.
Gislebertus worked on several churches between France and Italy, and applied many similar features across them. The Autun Cathedral is an excellent example, emphasizing thinness and decoration in everything from the towers to the walls to the tympanum. Also common in Gilbertese's work, The Autun tympanum has a very narrow inscription below it ...
Grégoire Guérard or the Master of the Autun Triptych was a Dutch painter active from 1512 to 1538 at Troyes and in ... Yves and Privat in Autun Cathedral. [2] ...
Gislebert or Gilbert (Gislebertus, Willebertus, Galeverius, Galtherus) 859 and 878; ... In 1793, the Cathedral of Chartres was converted to a Temple of Reason.
The Autun Cathedral is famous for its architectural sculpture, particularly the tympanum of The Last Judgment above the west portal, surviving fragments from the lost portal of the north transept, and the capitals in the nave and choir. All of these are traditionally considered the work of Gislebertus, whose name is on
Gislebertus's Last Judgement, west tympanum of Autun Cathedral, 12th century. The presentation of the resurrected dead across the five lower panels is reminiscent of a Gothic tympanum, specifically that at Autun Cathedral.