To illustrate the life of a single saint on such a monumental scale was most unusual at this period, and the designs perhaps followed a now lost cycle in an illuminated manuscript, though even there such an extended treatment was unusual.
To illustrate the life of a single saint on such a monumental scale was most unusual at this period, and the doors are the only Romanesque ones in Europe with such a programme. The designs perhaps followed a now lost cycle in an illuminated manuscript, though even there such an extended treatment of a saint's life was unusual.