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Medieval Art & Architecture in Saxony
The Courtauld Institute & Harvard University Doctoral Students Trip, 2007
Day 3 - The Cistercian Church at Pforta (Landesschulpforta)
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 West facade |
 Foundation inscription on apse buttress |
 Southeastern lancets |
 View from southeast |
 View from southeast |
 South flank of nave |
 Bar tracery in choir windows |
 Curvilinear bar tracery in choir windows |
 Curvilinear bar tracery in choir windows |
 Odd mix of bar and plate tracery |
 Odd mix of bar and plate tracery |
 Crossing and apse from the nave |
 Nave looking east from crossing |
 View from west end of nave |
 View of choir from south transept |
 Choir and apse |
 'Remois' passage in apse |
 Choir elevation |
 Archway leading into side chapel |
 Vault springing in choir |
 Perforated broken gable over stall on south of choir |
 Shelf and piscina on north of choir |
 Surviving panels of Cistercian-friendly grisaille in the choir |
 Doors fitted to apse passage (northeast corner) |
 Gabled cupboards behind high altar |
 Professors Suckale (seated) and Crossley with chums |
 Side chapel to south of choir |
 The great cross |
 The great cross - Christ's right arm & St Matthew |
 The great cross - Christ's left arm & St Mark |
 The great cross - detail of Christ's feet |
 Roof boss in the chapel - Man's head and St Luke's symbol |
 Roof boss - Christ's wounds and the Arma Christi |
 1/2 sized tomb effigies - of noble children (?) |
 Detail of the hawking lure in the boy's left hand |