Senlis - Notre-Dame

The cathedral was erected between 1153 and 1191. Seen here is the west portal ("Portail de la Vierge"), carved around 1170.

This portal marks not only a dramatic stylistic change, here even the "subject" changed. The portal centers around the "Coronation of the Virgin". Most existing large Romanesque and even early Gothic tympana centered so far around the "Last Judgement". This is one of the earliest (if not the earliest) monumental sculptural representations the Virgin´s Coronation.