| Title: | St. Vitale - Abel and Melchizedek Sacrificing |
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| Notes: | Mosaic on the right (south) lunette of the chancel, depicting Abel and Melchizedek bringing their offerings to the altar. On the adjoining spandrals are Isaiah (upper right) and Moses loosening his sandals before the Burning Bush (upper left) |
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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 4:4
Exodus 3:1-5
Hebrews 5:5-10
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| Person as Subject: | Abel (Biblical figure)
Isaiah (Biblical prophet)
Melchizedek (Biblical figure)
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| Lectionary links: | BLent05
BProp24
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- Italy -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 71A814
11I62(Melchizedek)
11I62(Isaiah)
71E11421
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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 - Abel and Melchizedek Sacrificing, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=32209 [retrieved May 31, 2020]. Original source: Images donated by Patout Burns, Vanderbilt University. |
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| Record Number: | 32209
Last Updated: 2012-04-10 15:17:13
Record Created: 2003-09-15 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Unit:
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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