| Title: | St. Vitale - Abel and Melchizedek Sacrificing (Detail) |
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| Notes: | Mosaic on the right (south) lunette of the chancel, depicting Abel making an offering of a lamb |
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| Date: | 521-547 |
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| Building: | San Vitale, Ravenna
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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
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| Person as Subject: | Abel (Biblical figure)
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- Italy -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 71A814
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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 (Detail), from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=32211 [retrieved January 20, 2021]. Original source: Images donated by Patout Burns, Vanderbilt University. |
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| Record Number: | 32211
Last Updated: 2021-01-14 09:42:50
Record Created: 2003-09-15 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
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Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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