Cathedral of Aix en Provence (5); meeting with the Apostles
The extreme lightness of the columns of the cloister is offset by very large corner pillars, who discover a scene of great wealth.
The upper corner pillars exposes symbols tetramorph symbolic representation of the evangelists that we also have to learn from the rafters inside the building.
Finally, the battery northeast this exceptional statue of St. Peter, the character hieratic ; and stern, dressed in a rich garment folds worked seems strong goalkeeper inflexible this little paradise. I contemplate long sculpture that remains for me one of the most moving of the art of the twelfth century.
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