| Title: | St. Savin - God's Creation of the Luminaries |
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| Notes: | Fresco on the upper north register of the nave depicting God, represented by the figure of Christ with a cruciform nimbus, creating the sun (the bust of a man aureoled with rays of light) and the moon (the bust of a woman crowned with a crescent) and the stars Donated by James T. Womack and Anne Richardson, Nashville, TN. |
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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 1:1-2:4a
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| Person as Subject: | God (Biblical figure)
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| Lectionary links: | ATrin
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| General Subject: | Creation of the World
Light
Sun
Moon
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 71A24
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| Permalink: |
https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=33548
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| Copyright Source: | image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson |
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| Copyright Permission: | Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Attribution: | St. Savin - God's Creation of the Luminaries, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=33548 [retrieved April 20, 2024]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson. |
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| Record Number: | 33548
Last Updated: 2022-06-20 19:11:19
Record Created: 2003-11-05 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
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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