| Title: | Scenes from the Life of Christ on Italo-Byzantine Ivory Plaque (Top Right) |
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| Notes: | Top right section of the life of Christ depicted on an Italo-Byzantine (Venetian?) ivory plaque, showing Mary reclining after having given birth to Jesus, surrounded by shepherd and watched over by angels, while women (midwives?) bathe the baby Jesus with Joseph sitting nearby. |
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| Building: | Victoria and Albert Museum
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| Material: | Ivory |
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| City/Town: | London
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| Country: | Great Britain
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| Scripture: | Luke 2:1-20
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| Lectionary links: | ANatv
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| General Subject: | Nativity
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- Italy -- Venice -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 73B1
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http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=33854
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| Copyright Source: | Image courtesy of Patout Burns, Vanderbilt Divinity School |
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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: | Scenes from the Life of Christ on Italo-Byzantine Ivory Plaque (Top Right), from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=33854 [retrieved August 18, 2017]. Original source: Image courtesy of Patout Burns, Vanderbilt Divinity School. |
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| Record Number: | 33854
Last Updated: 2011-03-26 16:12:05
Record Created: 2003-12-02 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
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Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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