Talk:Cross of Mathilde
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Iconography
[edit]Cameos. Surely it is only the woman whose iconographic significance in this context is obscure: no 11th-century viewer could miss identifying the soldier with a spear as the centurion with the lance.
Sun. The sun is hiding its face as an emblem of the hours of Crucifixion darkness described in the Gospels. I'm sure this connection appears in the German literature, which I've not read.
Seat of Wisdom. I inserted a reference to this Byzantine iconographic convention.--Wetman (talk) 18:57, 10 February 2014 (UTC)