| Title: | St. Savin - Burial of Abraham |
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| Notes: | Fresco on the lower south register of the nave depicting the burial of Abraham by his sons Isaac and Ismael, who lay his body into a sarcophagus in the presence of the whole family |
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| Date: | 1040-1090 |
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| Building: | Abbaye de Saint-Savin
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| City/Town: | Vienne
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| Country: | France
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| Scripture: | Genesis 25:9
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| Person as Subject: | Abraham (Biblical patriarch)
Isaac (Biblical patriarch)
Ishmael (Biblical figure)
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 71C2241
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| Attribution: | St. Savin - Burial of Abraham, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=32950 [retrieved September 30, 2016]. Original source: Images donated by Anne Richardson Womack, Vanderbilt University, and James T. Womack, Montgomery Bell Academy, Nashville, TN. |
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| Record Number: | 32950
Last Updated: 2011-01-12 13:54:43
Record Created: 2003-10-01 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
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Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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| Bibliographic Source: | Abbey of Saint-Savin, Vienne. Riou, Yves-Jean. Inventaire general, 1993. |
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