| 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] |
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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 Source: | Digitized from the slide collection of James T. Womack, Nashville, TN |
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| Copyright Permission: | This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial ShareAlike 3.0 License. In short: you are free to use and to share the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license compatible with this one. For uses other than the above, contact the Divinity Library at divref@vanderbilt.edu. |
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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 August 23, 2017]. Original source: Digitized from the slide collection of James T. Womack, Nashville, TN. |
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| Record Number: | 26303
Last Updated: 2010-11-29 18:08:21
Record Created: 2002-03-21 00:00:00 |
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| 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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