| Title: | The Destruction of Nineveh |
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| Notes: | Quatrefoil on the western exterior, depicting the inhabitants of Nineveh grow faint and weak at the destruction of the city, in accordance with Nahum's prophecy Donated by James T. Womack and Anne Richardson, Nashville, TN. |
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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: | Nahum 2:10
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| Person as Subject: | Nahum (Biblical figure)
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| General Subject: | Nineveh
Destruction
Prophecy
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Amiens -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 71O811
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| Index of Christian Art Number: | 20 A51 CND 14W,002 D2
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| Copyright Permission: | Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike - CC-BY-SA-3.0 |
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| Attribution: | The Destruction of Nineveh, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=29295 [retrieved February 28, 2021]. |
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| Record Number: | 29295
Last Updated: 2020-12-21 13:21:58
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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