Reims; Seven Plagues of the Seven Cups, Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Trumpets of the Judgment, Thousand Year Reign; top portion of the right archivolts of the south portal, west facade.
 
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Title:Reims; Seven Plagues of the Seven Cups, Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Trumpets of the Judgment, Thousand Year Reign; top portion of the right archivolts of the south portal, west facade
Notes:The archvolt 5 (the innermost) depicts the seven plagues of the seven cups; on the archivolt 4, top down, are shown the angel standing on the sun and the horseman of the Apocalypse called Faithful and True; on the archivolt 3, the angel at the grindstone and the birds invited to the feast of God; on the archivolt 2, the birds invited to the feast of God and the scorpion of the fifth trumpet torturing a man; the archivolt 1 depicts the angel locking up the devil (the thousand-year reign) and the devil bound by the angel and cast into the bottomless pit. [Kurman plates 731 736, 738, 737, 740, 733, 735, 729, 749]

Digitized from the slide collection of James T. Womack, Nashville, TN.

Date:1211
Building:Notre-Dame de Reims (Cathedral)
City/Town:Reims
Country:France

General Subject:Apocalypse: Revelation
Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Library of Congress Subject:Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Reims -- Medieval, 500-1500
ICONCLASS Number:11U1 ; 73C841

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Attribution:Reims; Seven Plagues of the Seven Cups, Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Trumpets of the Judgment, Thousand Year Reign; top portion of the right archivolts of the south 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=27187 [retrieved April 25, 2024]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson.
Record Number:27187 Last Updated: 2022-06-19 17:06:21 Record Created: 2002-08-01 00:00:00
Institution:Vanderbilt University Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition

Bibliographic Source:Kurmann, Peter, and Alain Villes. Reims, la cathédrale Notre-Dame. Paris: Monum, 2001.