I could stare at these cathedral decors for hours.I think they are beautiful works of art.....

Thanks for your great descriptions of the sculptures above door depicting heaven and hell. That for me is the best thatyou do!

Very good description of the tympanum very helpful !

Wow this is amazing!

I was there. Impressive!

Thank you so much for your correction. You are absolutely right, Lazarus's sister is not Mary Magdalene. It is worth noting however that the Golden Legend, which would become available about a century later-but was based on earlier common beliefs, actually does conflate these two Marys (just as I did). Best, Steven

@temptemp563

3 жыл бұрын

Too many Marys!

@sandie157

2 жыл бұрын

Actually Mediaeval Catholicism puts them together and present Catholic tradition does put Mary Magdalen as the sister of Martha and Lazarus

@victoriamilonas1942

2 жыл бұрын

The correction was available (8 years old!?) just as I was going to say I had never heard the combination of Magdelane & Lazarus before. And I did catechism, Catholic high school & a big bible as history course. Missed the whole conversation.

@Pollicina_db

5 ай бұрын

@@sandie157 But isn’t Mary Magdalene colloquialy considered the prostitute that Jesus saved from stoning?

OH MAN, THE START OF THIS VIDEO. Of all Dr. Zucker's smoothly-toned intros... this is an instant classic, lol. 😱😅 As ~edgy~ as the modern world is, I've seen surprisingly little of hell depicted in artworks, now that I think about it... Jesus' hands intrigued me. The left is noticeably larger and appears clean - the right, not so much. At first I thought this was incidental, but when I heard about the positioning of those to his right and left, it made me think perhaps the blighted hand is representing him becoming sin for [their] salvation.. I don't mind it being coincidence, but it's definitely intriguing.

Wonderful video!

@rebeccaryan9058

2 жыл бұрын

Liar

The absolute scariest is at Conques!

Which references do you uses for make this video? I needed for my research of medieval tympanum

@smarthistory-art-history

Ай бұрын

Many. There is a long bibliography for Autun and for Gislebertus.

Lazarus was not Mary Magdalene's brother. He was the brother of Mary and Martha but not Magdalene. That was a different Mary. I see this error was pointed out by others about 10 years ago.

@smarthistory-art-history

9 ай бұрын

yes, thank you. We offered a correction soon after the video was published.

Tympanum.I think the Khmer ( Cambodian peope ) called it " Kbach Haoh Cheang ".If i'm not mistaking.

Scares the modern mind too....which is why we ignore it.....

Somehow, I don't feel the horror that is supposed to be invoked here. The characters are rather cartoon-like, so instead of feeling horror at the reality of their situation, it feels more like a black comedy. It's cartoon violence where the characters don't bleed and never actually die no matter how fatal their accident. That may not have been the Bishop's intention, but I feel quite sure that it was the sculptor's. Quite missing are any actual instruments of torture such as the Medieval mind was so capable of inventing during the Inquisition. Nowhere are the fires of Hell evident. The demons do indeed look hideous, but then so do the gargoyles which have no more significance than the little beasts who's entwined limbs form the knots around an initial on an illuminated manuscript page.

@jhat2014

5 жыл бұрын

I know you posted four years ago but I'll respond anyways haha. The emotions and feelings invoked in your modern brain WOULD be different from those invoked in a medieval brain, wouldn't they? Try to imagine being a non-literate medieval peasant who has a very limited experience with "renderings of beings" (of any kind; humans, demons, angels, etc). Add to that an intense, literal belief in the figures and stories described. Add to that I imagine they would be quite terrified. I'm also not at all surprised that you were not! If you showed a modern horror movie to one of these medieval peasants, they might just actually die from terror! We are very different.

@oaim50

5 жыл бұрын

@@jhat2014 I suppose they would differ, but how could we ever know what was in the heads of the artist and the viewers of his art? There is so much modernist polemic against the Middle Ages that can serve as a shortcut to insight, I guess. But I agree, the hot and cold Buddhist hells are a lot more terrifying than this, and their punishments suit the crimes very neatly.