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1 1 and view of the crossing (facing page), cathedral of Saint Andrew, Wells. Begun by Bishop Reginald de Bohun completed by 1239, and the upper parts of the towers added in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries front (above) 86, Wells Cathedral is one of the great achievements of English Gothic. In the broad, screenhke organization of the west front, with towers to either side of the church rather than constituting part of there is one of the forms of horizontal arrangement to which English confined to the portals but appear openings bearing in ^ > most English 44 Statues are not it was found necessary after 1338 to reinforce the piers weight of the tower over the crossing.
In contrast to the med- itative mysticism of the Throne of Mercy in Soest (page 51), here the representation is meant image of the to be apocalyptic, a direct final and is related to the consummation of the Eucharist effected on the altar beneath it. The vehement treatment of the dradestiny of humanity, pery, with its angular folds in the so-called "jagged style" which was typical of painting in the middle of the is in contrast with the monumental rigor of the picture as a whole. Although the architectural framework is still Ron) lesque in form, the body of Christ hanging on the cross is already Gothic in its portrayal of a body from wh- h all life has fled; and Christ is no longer the kingly victor over death as in Romanesque century, art.
That which one The Last Judgment, tympanum of the main portal (FUrstenportal), Bamberg Cathedral, To c. 1235-37 Judgment on the tympanum (above) are the Blessed with the Instruments of the the Cross, Lance, and Crown of Thorns. At the far left are the human souls taken up into Heaven. the left of the Christ of Passion — At the right, the damned souls struggle in the chains of Satan. Beneath the feet of from their graves, and Mary and John kneel at either side as their intercessors. Christ, hopeful souls arise 57 ttf^^"' f 'M * \'' m Prophets, on the choir screen of the Cathedral, On c.