| Title: | Laon: Presentation in the temple, Virtues and Vices, prophets; right archivolts and heads of the right jamb figures of the north portal, west facade (Nativity Portal) |
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| Notes: | The heads of the jamb figures are, from left to right, Joseph, Mary holding infant Jesus, and Simeon. The archivolt 2 (innermost of three) depicts fight between vices and virtues, and the archivolts 3 and 4 depict prophets and Nativity play. [Martinet 9] |
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| Date: | 1155- |
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| Building: | Cathédrale de Laon
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| City/Town: | Laon
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| Country: | France
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| Scripture: | Luke 2:21-40
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| Lectionary links: | BXmas01
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| General Subject: | Presentation in the Temple
Virtues and Vices
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Laon -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 73B4
11O
11I1
73B13
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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: | Laon: Presentation in the temple, Virtues and Vices, prophets; right archivolts and heads of the right jamb figures of the north portal, west facade (Nativity 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=27227 [retrieved June 23, 2017]. Original source: Digitized from the slide collection of James T. Womack, Nashville, TN. |
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| Record Number: | 27227
Last Updated: 2010-12-07 16:26:30
Record Created: 2002-08-01 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Unit:
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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| Bibliographic Source: | Martinet, Suzanne. Laon Cathedral. [Laon, France]: Impr. du Courrier de l'Aisne, 1989. |
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