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| Title: | Chartres Cathedral; Joseph, Judith (Sarah), Jesus Son of Sirach; right embrasure, right portal, north transept |
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| Notes: | Old Testament portal figures (right jamb, north transept). From left: Joseph, Judith (or Sarah or the Sibyl), and Jesus Son of Sirach. Joseph (like Christ) was betrayed and sold by a companion; his socle represents a woman being enticed by a dragon, which could refer to Potiphar's wife as well as Israel listening to foreign gods (Jeremiah 3). Judith is the deliverer of her people (like Mary) and the socle dog represents the young widow's faithfulness to her husband. Jesus Son of Sirach stands on a socle representing a workman rebuilding the Temple, because he was confused with Jeshua who rebuilt the Temple after the exile (Ezra 3). See also Villette, pg. 150-152. Digitized from the slide collection of James T. Womack, Nashville, TN. |
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| Date: | 1204-1210 |
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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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| General Subject: | Sibyls
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Chartres -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 11I62(JOSEPH)
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11I62(JESUS SIRACH)
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| Index of Christian Art Number: | 20 C48 CND 14N,001 C7b
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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; Joseph, Judith (Sarah), Jesus Son of Sirach; right embrasure, right portal, north transept, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=26375 [retrieved April 16, 2024]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson. |
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| Record Number: | 26375
Last Updated: 2022-06-17 14:25:20
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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