Arles St-Trophime - Christ in majesty

Arles St Trophime Christ Majeste

Christ the supreme judge raises his right hand while holding in his left the register of names. Placed, as is customary, in a mandorla and surrounded by angels or by the evangelists, this Christ figure is unconstomarily three dimensional, and speaks to a Roman element in the plastic arts which, in Arles, had never been supplanted. To Christ's right, the evangelists Matthew and Mark.

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