Changing perspective – getting closer, moving around – allows you to appreciate a work of art in a different way.
This is especially true for the sculptures of the royal portal, particularly the smaller ones located within the tympanums, several meters above the viewers’ heads.
Viewed from the ground, at an angle of at least 40° and a distance of at least 5 meters, the proportions of the figures tend to appear shortened, their positions seem rigid – and, truth be told, the precious sense of life is somewhat diminished.
