spread evenly; investigation has found cooling cracks in the metal. The result of this process was probably still rather rough, covered in metal bumps from the pipes in the mold through which the metal was poured in and through which air escaped and it would have had to have been worked over and polished up in great detail. Iconography The Bernward Doors depict scenes from the Book of Genesis (left door) arranged in parallel to scenes from the Gospels (right door). The scenes are organized based on the principle that Adam and Christ mirror each other - with Christ's sacrificial death redeeming Adam's sin. The left door depicts the increasing estrangement of humanity from God from top to bottom: the Creation, the Fall, Cain's murder of Abel. The right door shows the redemptive work of Christ from bottom to top: the Annunciation and Nativity, the Passion, the Resurrection). The depictions of the right door, in which the birth and childhood of Jesus are followed immediately by his passion and resurrection, are complemented thematically by the depiction of his life and ministry on the Bernward Column, which was probably also donated by Bernward, and stood in the east choir of St. Michael's until the eighteenth century. In some cases, several events which chronologically occur one after another are depicted in a single panel, leading to an odd sense of multiplicity. This was an artistic convention of the time, much used in illuminated manuscripts. So for example, Adam appears twice in the scene of his awakening by God the Father. Left door Top panel: God creates Adam. Adam after the creation. Second panel: Adam and Eve are introduced Third panel: The fall Fourth panel: God interrogates Adam and Eve Fifth panel: Expulsion from paradise Sixth panel: Life on earth (door handle) Seventh panel: Cain and Abel make their offerings to God Eighth panel: Cain kills Abel Right door Top panel: Noli me tangere; ascension of Christ into heaven Second panel: The women at the tomb Third panel: The crucifixion Fourth panel: Christ appears before Pilate and Herod Fifth panel: The child Jesus is brought to the Temple Sixth panel: The gifts of the Wise Men (door handle) Seventh panel: The birth of Christ Eighth panel: The annunciation to Mary Typological correlation To understand the parallelism between the panels of the left and right doors, one must enter the medieval mindset, with its