|
| Title: | Laon; Coronation, Death, and Assumption of the Virgin, Tree of Jesse, Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ, Jesse, David, Bathesheba; trumeau, lintel, tympanum, archivolts and embrasures of the center portal, west facade (Coronation Portal) |
|---|
| Notes: | The trumeau depicts Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus (JTW). On the tympanum, Vrigin Mary, crowned, sits opposite her son, surrounded by two angels standing and holding censors and two others kneeling. The lintel shows Mary's death and burial. The archivolt 1 (innermost) depicts angels carrying Virgin's possessions; the archivolts 2 and 3 depict the Tree of Jesse (with Jesse, asleep, holding the tree, and both King David with his harp and Bathesheba, Solomon's mother, on the boughs), and the prophets who announced Christ's birth. [Martinet 7] Digitized from the slide collection of James T. Womack, Nashville, TN. |
|---|
| Date: | 1155 |
|---|
| Building: | Cathédrale de Laon
|
|---|
| City/Town: | Laon
|
|---|
| Country: | France
|
|---|
|
| Scripture: | Samuel II, 12:24-25
|
|---|
| General Subject: | Tree of Jesse
Prophets
Assumption of the Virgin
|
|---|
| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Laon -- Medieval, 500-1500
|
|---|
| ICONCLASS Number: | 73E7
73A21
11I1
|
|---|
|
| Permalink: |
http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=27224
(Use this link to refer back to this image.)
|
|---|
|
| Copyright Permission: | Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike - CC-BY-SA-3.0 |
|---|
| Attribution: | Laon; Coronation, Death, and Assumption of the Virgin, Tree of Jesse, Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ, Jesse, David, Bathesheba; trumeau, lintel, tympanum, archivolts and embrasures of the center portal, west facade (Coronation Portal), from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=27224 [retrieved February 27, 2021]. |
|---|
| Record Number: | 27224
Last Updated: 2021-01-14 12:33:00
Record Created: 2002-08-01 00:00:00 |
|---|
| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Unit:
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
|---|
|
| Bibliographic Source: | Martinet, Suzanne. Laon Cathedral. [Laon, France]: Impr. du Courrier de l'Aisne, 1989. |
|---|
|
|---|
