MEDIEVAL SCULPTOR, German
(active in the 13th century in Freiburg)

God Creating the Universe

13th century
Stone
Cathedral, Freiburg

Until the advent of Copernicus, all knowledge about the universe had to be made to fit into the framework of the Ptolemaic model in which the Earth was firmly the centre of everything. The sculpture in the Freiburg Cathedral shows God creating the Universe, with the planetary spheres inside, covered by the sphere of the fixed stars.