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Title:
Adam Digging the Earth and Eve Spinning
Notes:
Stone sculpture on the western exterior depicting Adam and Eve laboring after their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
Donated by James T. Womack and Anne Richardson, Nashville, TN.
Date:
1220-1240
Building:
Cathédrale d'Amiens
Object/Function:
Relief sculpture
Material:
Stone
City/Town:
Amiens
Country:
France
Scripture:
Genesis 3:16-21
Person as Subject:
Eve (Biblical figure)
Adam (Biblical figure)
Lectionary links:
AAdvt01
General Subject:
Earth
Library of Congress Subject:
Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Amiens -- Medieval, 500-1500
ICONCLASS Number:
71A721
Index of Christian Art Number:
20 A51 CND 14W,001 C4
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Copyright Permission:
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Attribution:
Adam Digging the Earth and Eve Spinning, from
Art in the Christian Tradition
, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN.
http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=29440
[retrieved March 3, 2021].
Record Number:
29440
Last Updated:
2020-11-13 08:19:15
Record Created:
2003-04-29 00:00:00
Institution:
Vanderbilt University
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Collection:
Art in the Christian Tradition