Building Name

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Saint-Nectaire  

Location

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Choir

Capital

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1

Subject

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Transfiguration

Description

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2nd column of rond-point, north side, facing south, west and east The west angle of the corbeille shows Christ Triumphant leaning on a cross on a long pole (processional cross?). He is surrounded by Elie and Moses, each holding a banderole bearing the words of St. Peter. Inscription dates to second half of the 12th century.

Reference

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The Transfiguration is reported in three of the Gospels: Matt. 17, 1-9;; Mark 9, 1-8; Luke 28, 36. The text carved on this capital is closes to that in Matthew: Domine, bonum est not hic esse: si vis, faciamus his tria tabernacula, tibi unum, Moysi unum et Eliae unum. The quotation carved on this capital is truncated after tabernacula where tibi unum... would follow The identification of a person named Ranulfo remains uncertain. B. Craplet proposed that it was a donor, who through his generosity, hoped to escape a demon, depicted by the personage in the casket, similar to Notre-Dame-du-Port and followed by an angel to save him.

Corpus Ref.

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vol. 18, Allier, Cantal, Loire, Haute-Loire, Puy-de-Dôme, 236