Chartres Cathedral; Ascension of Christ; left portal, west facade.
 
Click to enter image viewer

Use the Save buttons below to save any of the available image sizes to your computer.
Download Thumbnail image:
Download Medium image:
Download Large image:
Title:Chartres Cathedral; Ascension of Christ; left portal, west facade
Notes:Portal of Ascension of Christ (left portal, west facade). Jesus Christ, apostles, angels, zodiac signs, labors of months. Voussoirs of archivolts depict signs of zodiac and accompanying labors of months. On tympanum, Christ ascends on cloud flanked by two angels. On lintel, angels descend on seated apostles. The theme of this doorway is more complex than just "ascension." [Villette, pg. 55]

Digitized from the slide collection of James T. Womack, Nashville, TN.

Date:1145
Building:Cathédrale de Chartres
City/Town:Chartres
Country:France

Scripture:Acts 1:1-11
Lectionary links:AAscn
BAscn
CAscn
General Subject:Ascension of Christ
Library of Congress Subject:Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Chartres -- Medieval, 500-1500
ICONCLASS Number:73E421
Index of Christian Art Number:20 C48 CND 14W,001 B1

Permalink: https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=26282
(Use this link to refer back to this image.)

Copyright Source:image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson
Copyright Permission:Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0
Attribution:Chartres Cathedral; Ascension of Christ; left portal, west facade, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=26282 [retrieved April 25, 2024]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson.
Record Number:26282 Last Updated: 2022-06-17 13:49:36 Record Created: 2002-03-21 00:00:00
Institution:Vanderbilt University Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition

Bibliographic Source:Villette, Jean. Les Portails de la cathedrale de Chartres. Editions J.M. Garnier, 1994.