ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses place and space in successive way: an observation of how places and orientated space are figured within the major sculptural representation of a Romanesque church, namely the tympanum of the abbey and parish church Saint-Pierre in Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne, in the South-West of France. It explores how the tympanum uses space, or rather organizes and qualifies distinct places within the spatial composition, in order to lay out what are actually not spaces, but times of the End, at the End of all Time. The chapter analyses how a trajectory through chronological stages is imaged into the orientated vertical plane of representation, contributing to the axiological characterization of the eschatological trajectory. It examines how the actual space inside the church is shaped by the iconography of the varied sculptural elements, including both the tympanum and corresponding portal, and the sculpted iconography of the interior.
