Showing posts with label Peinture murale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peinture murale. Show all posts

Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Christ en gloire (Christ in Glory)

Depiction of Christ surrounded by a gloire (aureola).
These pictures seem to be engrafted onto the Christ Pantocrator in Byzantine iconography.
This fresque (fresco) is to be found in the Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption in Gourdon.
See also Christ en majesté (synonym), gloire, majesté and mandorle.


Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption - Gourdon

Christ en majesté (Christ in Majesty)

Depiction of Christ surrounded by a gloire (aureola).
These pictures seem to be engrafted onto the Christ Pantocrator in Byzantine iconography.
This fresque (fresco) is to be found in the Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption in Gourdon.
See also Christ en gloire (synonym), gloire, majesté and mandorle.


Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption in Gourdon

Tuesday, 15 January 2013

Peinture murale (mural)

A painting on an inside wall of a building.
The picture shows a mural on one of the walls of the Saint-Pierre in Brancion (Martailly-lès-Brancion).


Saint-Pierre - Brancion (Martailly-lès-Brancion)

Phylactère (speech scroll)

A scroll on a piece of sculpture or painting used by the artist to place some text.
In this picture of a ceiling painting in the cathédrale (cathedral) in Basel (Switzerland) two speech scrolls are visible.


Dom - Basel (CH)