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"Time and Eternity in the Eschatology of the Guennol Triptych," The paper investigates the symbolic and scholastic semantics underlying a distinct group of enamel triptychs originating in the Mosan-Rhenish region between 1160 and 1175, concentrating on the so-called Guennol triptych, conserved at the cloisters, It represents the Last Judgment in a very unusual way, without judge, without court, without terror, but with a splinter of the holy cross as the sign of the Son of man, thus actualizing the imminence of the Last Judgment. The texts exactly describing the elements of this astonishing setting are identified as distinctions 45-49 of the fourth book of Lombard's Sentences.