Doomsday Tympanum

Bamburg Cathedral was one of the most important cathedral building projects to be undertaken in Germany in the early 13th Century. Its extensive figurative ornamentation was probably begun in the 1220s and it must have been virtually complete by the time of the rededication of the cathedral in 1237. While the tympanum of the Portal of Mercy is still composed largely in the idiom of the late Romanesque, the tympanum of the Princes' Portal is of a wholly different character. All the events of the