Gniezno Doors - eighteen scenes from the life of Saint Adalbert
The Gniezno Doors (Polish: Drzwi Gnieźnieńskie, Latin: Porta Regia) are a pair of bronze doors placed at the entrance to Gniezno Cathedral in Gniezno, Poland. They are decorated with eighteen bas-relief scenes from the life of St. Adalbert (in Polish, Wojciech), whose remains had been purchased for their weight in gold and brought back to, and enshrined in, the cathedral.[1][2] The cathedral is a Gothic building which the doors predate, having been carried over from an earlier temple. The doors were made around 1175, in the reign of Mieszko III the Old, and are one of the most important works of Romanesque art in Poland.
- ^ Archdiocese of Gniezno
- ^ Jadwiga Irena Daniec The Message of Faith and Symbol in European Medieval Bronze Church Doors, chapter two: "Man, Flora and Fauna in the Bronze Door of the Gniezno Cathedral in Poland", pp. 23-66, Danbury, CT, Rutledge Books, Inc., 1999, ISBN 1-887750-95-9.