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Title: | Chartres Cathedral; elders, angels; left archivolts, central portal, west facade |
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Notes: | Left archivolts of central portal, west facade. From left to right, two male figures representing the 24 elder musicians of the Apocalypse; then two of twelve angels surrounding Christ in Majesty. Each elder holds a container of perfume and a musical instrument [Villette, pg. 31-35] Digitized from the slide collection of James T. Womack, Nashville, TN. |
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Date: | 1145 |
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Building: | Cathédrale de Chartres
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City/Town: | Chartres
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Country: | France
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Scripture: | Revelation 4:1-11
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General Subject: | Apocalyptic imagery
Elders
Music
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Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Chartres -- Medieval, 500-1500
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ICONCLASS Number: | 73G211
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Index of Christian Art Number: | 20 C48 CND 14W,001 A2
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Copyright Permission: | Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike - CC-BY-SA-3.0 |
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Attribution: | Chartres Cathedral; elders, angels; left archivolts, central portal, west facade, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=26303 [retrieved January 24, 2021]. |
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Record Number: | 26303
Last Updated: 2021-01-14 12:22:36
Record Created: 2002-03-21 00:00:00 |
Institution: | Vanderbilt University
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Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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Bibliographic Source: | Villette, Jean. Les Portails de la cathedrale de Chartres. Editions J.M. Garnier, 1994. |
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