| Title: | Martyrdom and Death of John the Baptist |
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| Notes: | Painted choir-screen sculpture, northside, depicting Herodias stabbing the head of John the Baptist on a platter. Donated by James T. Womack and Anne Richardson, Nashville, TN. |
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| Date: | 1508-1519 |
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| Building: | Cathédrale d'Amiens
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| Object/Function: | Relief sculpture |
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| Material: | Mixed |
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| City/Town: | Amiens
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| Country: | France
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| Scripture: | Mark 6:14-29
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| Person as Subject: | Salome (Biblical figure)
Herodias, wife of Herod Antipas, died ca.39
Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee, ca.20 BC-40 AD
Salome (Biblical figure)
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| Lectionary links: | BProp10
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| General Subject: | Death
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Amiens -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 73C1336
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https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=29348
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| Copyright Source: | image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson |
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| Copyright Permission: | Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Attribution: | Martyrdom and Death of John the Baptist, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=29348 [retrieved April 24, 2024]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson. |
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| Record Number: | 29348
Last Updated: 2022-06-20 16:03:48
Record Created: 2003-04-26 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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| Bibliographic Source: | Chorschranke der Kathedrale von Amiens. Knipping, Detlef. Munchen: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2001. |
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