Bronze Doors

Los Angeles Cathedral of Our Lady

Temple Street, between Grand and Hill. Robert Graham, 2001. Reference: Jack Miles, Peggyh Fogelman, Noriko Fujinami, Robert Graham; The Great Bronze Doors For the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. Venice, Calif. : Wave Pub., 2002.

The inner bronze doors of the cathedral depict many symbols, such as:
  • Chinese Turtle - believed to hold the world on its back
  • Falling man
  • A footprint
  • Tree of Jesse - Jesse was the father of King David, the Jewish Messiah was said to be a new shoot from the Tree of Jesse.
  • Dolphin - symbol of Christ the Savior
  • I Ching symbol
  • Chumash depiction of the California condor
  • Griffin - symbolizes the relationship between psychic energy and cosmic force, and associated with forces of ambivalence, representing both the Savior and the Antichrist.
  • Virgin of Loreto with the Litany of Loreto
  • Virgin of Montserrat
  • Virgin of Guadalupe
  • Virgin of the Rosary of Pomata
  • Virgin of the Candlestick and Virgins of Belen
  • Virgin of Mercy
  • Apocalyptic Virgin
  • Divine Shepherdess
  • Deposition
  • Mater Dolorosa
  • La Mano Todopoderosa, The All-Powerful Hand
  • Virgin of the Rosary of Chichinquira



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