| Title: | Swords Are Beaten into Plowshares |
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| Notes: | Quatrefoil on the western exterior, depicting Micah's prophecy concerning the future reign of peace in which nations will beat swords into plowshares and wage war no more.
First Sunday of Advent, Year A: This beautifully detailed representation of the Isaiah passage for this Sunday depicts two metalsmiths. The one on the right has a large supply of swords that he has been breaking with a hammer; the broken swords fall on the floor. The smithy on the left picks up the broken pieces and works them into their new use in the forge, fed with air by the bellows on the far left.
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| Date: | 1220-1240 |
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| Building: | Cathédrale d'Amiens
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| Object/Function: | Relief sculpture |
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| Material: | Stone |
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| City/Town: | Amiens
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| Country: | France
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| Scripture: | Micah 4:3
Isaiah 2:1-5
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| Person as Subject: | Micah (Biblical prophet)
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| Lectionary links: | AAdvt01
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Amiens -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 71O422
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| Index of Christian Art Number: | 20 A51 CND 14W,002 H2
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| Attribution: | Swords Are Beaten into Plowshares, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=29252 [retrieved May 31, 2020]. |
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| Record Number: | 29252
Last Updated: 2011-01-12 12:17:07
Record Created: 2003-04-26 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
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Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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