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One of the most famous tympana in Romanesque art, this one was executed for the west porch of Saint Pierre and soon after (between 1120 and 1131) moved to the south porch. The iconographical theme, the Apocalyptic Vision, is taken directly from the Commentaria in Apocalypsin of Beatus. The fierce and majestic Christ is surrounded by the symbols of the four Evangelists; gazing up at Him, the twenty-four Elders assume animated postures, their bending, twisting movements accentuated by the broad, agitated folds of their drapery. In its monumental size and in such details of execution as the flat, curving drapery folds, the composition is characteristic of the art of Languedoc.
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