| Title: | St. Vitale - Abraham and the Three Angels; the Sacrifice of Isaac |
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| Notes: | Mosaic on the left (north) lunette of the chancel, depicting Abraham and the three angels on the left and the sacrifice of Isaac on the right |
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| Date: | 521-547 |
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| Building: | Basilica di S. Vitale (Ravenna, Italy)
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| Material: | Other |
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| City/Town: | Ravenna
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| Country: | Italy
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| Scripture: | Genesis 18:1-15
Genesis 22:1-24
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| Person as Subject: | Angels (Biblical figures)
Sarah (Biblical matriarch)
Abraham (Biblical patriarch)
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| Lectionary links: | CVigl
AVigl
BVigl
AProp08
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- Italy -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 71C122
71C13131
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| Copyright Source: | Images donated by Patout Burns, Vanderbilt University |
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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: | St. Vitale - Abraham and the Three Angels; the Sacrifice of Isaac, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=32150 [retrieved May 19, 2019]. Original source: Images donated by Patout Burns, Vanderbilt University. |
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| Record Number: | 32150
Last Updated: 2016-02-16 13:48:25
Record Created: 2003-09-11 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Unit:
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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