# Main portal \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MEDIEVAL SCULPTOR, French]() - Date: 1101-1150 - Technique: Stone ## Commentary The remaining sculpture of the abbey church is concentrated around the main portal, and its archivolts are formed by animal and vine friezes. The sculpture is arranged by both radially and tangentially. On the inside, six angels are moving tangentially towards the highest points, where two of them are holding a medallion with the hand of God. There are many figures in the third archivolt, each of them on its own voussoir, and they show the Massacre of the Innocents in Bethlehem, while the number of the Elders of the Apocalypse is increased in the fourth archivolt, in accordance with the number of voussoirs, to fifty-four. ## Related artworks - [Ambulatory capital]() - [Ambulatory capital]() - [Annunciation]() - [Apocalypse]() - [Apostles James the Great and Paul]() - [Apostles James the Great and Paul]() - [Apostles John and Peter]() - [Apostles]() - [Ascension]() - [Bearded Man's Head]() - [Capital from Nazareth]() - [Capital of a column]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()