Building Name

:

Notre-Dame-du-Port  

Location

:

Nave

Capital

:

2

Subject

:

Evangelists

Description

:

North side, third pillar from the transept. Western capital

Reference

:

The theme of the evangelists represented by angels, and not the symbols of the tetramorph is an iconographic variation widespread in the Auvergne (Mozac, Volvic). It is also found at Conques at the beginning of the twelfth century, with archangels and evangelists represented in the same way. The proposed dating for the inscriptions on this capital and the other capitals in the choir remain hypothetical, but it seems both the sculpture and the inscriptions suggest that the capitals date slightly earlier than the inscriptions and scenes that adorn the south portal.

Corpus Ref.

:

vol. 18, Allier, Cantal, Loire, Haute-Loire, Puy-de-Dôme, 194