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| Title: | Reims; Creation, God the Creator, Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ; Rose of the north transept |
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| Notes: | The Rose Window of the north transept depicts Creation: God the Creator in the center surrounded first by a corolla depicting the stories of Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel, and secondly by living creatures of land and sea. The corner piece under the vault shows Virgin Mary, as the new Eve, suckling the baby Jesus. [Demouy 12-13] |
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| Date: | 1211- |
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| Building: | Notre-Dame de Reims (Cathedral)
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| City/Town: | Reims
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| Country: | France
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| Scripture: | Genesis 1-3
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| General Subject: | Creation
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Reims -- Medieval, 500-1500
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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: | Reims; Creation, God the Creator, Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ; Rose of the north transept, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=27157 [retrieved November 21, 2018]. Original source: Digitized from the slide collection of James T. Womack, Nashville, TN. |
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| Record Number: | 27157
Last Updated: 2010-12-02 15:54:03
Record Created: 2002-08-01 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: | Demouy, Patrick, and Claude Sauvageot. Reims la cathédrale. Le ciel et la pierre, 3. Saint-Léger-Vauban: Zodiaque, 2000. |
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