| Title: | Chartres Cathedral; winged ox and eagle; tympanum, central portal, west facade |
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| Notes: | Detail of tympanum of central portal, west facade. Winged ox represents the apostle Luke and the eagle represents the apostle John, flanking Christ in majesty. [Villette, pg. 29-31] 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
Ezekiel 1
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| General Subject: | Four Evangelists
Eagle
Ox
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Chartres -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 11I421
11I422
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| Index of Christian Art Number: | 20 C48 CND 14W,001 A1
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| Copyright Source: | image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson |
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| Copyright Permission: | Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Attribution: | Chartres Cathedral; winged ox and eagle; tympanum, central 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=26318 [retrieved April 27, 2024]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson. |
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| Record Number: | 26318
Last Updated: 2022-06-17 14:06:10
Record Created: 2002-03-21 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
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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