title: Vom Fischer zum Fels. Die Metamorphose des Simon Petrus auf einem romanischen Kapitell in Moissac creator: Gallon, Thomas-Peter subject: ddc-730 subject: Plastic arts, numismatics, ceramics, metalwork subject: France subject: Iconography subject: Sculpture subject: Petrus subject: Kloster Moissac subject: Kreuzgang subject: Kapitell description: The article supposes a thesis on the iconography and the artistic expression of a figurative and narrative sculptural depiction that is represented on a Romanesque capital of the cloister of Moissac in southwestern France. This thesis refers to a detail of the capital about the miraculous draft of fish and the calling of the first Apostles according to the Gospel of Luke (capital n° 47 in the counting convention supposed by Schapiro 1931). In this detail (on the gallery side of the capital’s basket) three persons are represented: on the left is a fisherman wearing work clothes who is obviously jumping out of a boat, on the right is a haloed man in the habit of a philosopher from antiquity, and in the middle of the basket’s gallery side is a hesitant-looking man without a halo, who is also dressed like a philosopher from the ancient world. The thesis is that the diachronic sequence of three stages of one person’s individual development is simultaneuosly represented, with the metamorphosis of the fisherman Simon into Peter, who was the first Apostle and later the leader among the Apostles, in the middle of the basket’s gallery side. It is then explained in the article to what extent this thesis is due to the reception-aesthetic exploration of the subjects of the cloister’s capitals in recent literature. The thesis is being defended against conventional iconographic explanations. Furthermore the way the artistic creation of the scene points beyond the biblical source of its inspiration is shown. The delicate portrayal of hesitation expressed by the individual in the middle of the sculpted picture visualizes the great personal challenge posed by the required immediate transition from an honorable fisherman and paterfamilias into a follower of an itinerant preacher. While the theological interpretations of the biblical story explain that the willingness of the Apostles was proof and witness of divine power, this sculpted expression of human empathy with Simon‘s hesitation might even be seen as a token of religious heresy. date: 2018 type: Article type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article type: NonPeerReviewed identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/6477/ format: application/pdf identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdokhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/6477/1/Gallon_Vom_Fischer_zum_Fels_2018.pdf identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-artdok-64778 rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess language: ger