✨C13th Divine Portal ✨- the door to the Chapter House at @York_Minster , spirals upwards with a pattern as mesmerising as Van Gogh’s Starry Night, but created 600 years earlier - and intended to have the same effect. What I found at the top was even more remarkable…#thread
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Whilst photographing it, I got the sense that this door was orchestrating my every move as my eyes followed the pattern onwards and upwards, until…
@fotofacade @York_Minster This is very like Adso describing the door at the monastery in Umberto Ecos 'The Name of the Rose.'
@fotofacade @York_Minster Why does one circular device have a different pattern to the others?