| Title: | Purification of Isaiah's Lips |
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| Notes: | Art historian Maria Kupfer, in an article in the Art Bulletin, March 1986, forms the theory that this part of the fresco cycle inside the church at Nohant-Vic represents the sixth chapter of Isaiah. The pertinent verses say, "6:6 Then one of the seraphs flew to me, holding a live coal that had been taken from the altar with a pair of tongs.6:7 The seraph touched my mouth with it and said: "Now that this has touched your lips, your guilt has departed and your sin is blotted out." "
However, much of the decoration cycle in the small church includes images of the tetramorph (Ezekiel 1:10) and the wheel (Ezekiel 1:19; 10:9-14), key iconographic elements associated with Ezekiel. If the theme of Ezekiel rather than Isaiah is considered, then this fresco may actually be representing Ezekiel 2:8 - 3:3, in which God gives Ezekiel a "scroll" to eat. The eating of the scroll is the initiation of Ezekiel's call to be a prophet to Israel, a typological symbol for Christ's prophetic life. This fresco is immediately before the scene of Christ's entry into Jerusalem, the first scene of the Passion Cycle on the walls that follow. |
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| Date: | 1135-1140 |
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| Building: | Saint-Martin (Church : Nohant-Vicq, France)
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| Object/Function: | Fresco |
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| Material: | Other |
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| City/Town: | Nohant-Vic
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| Country: | France
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| Scripture: | Isaiah 6:5-13
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| Person as Subject: | Isaiah (Biblical prophet)
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| Lectionary links: | CEpip05
BTrin
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Nohant-Vic -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 710322
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| Index of Christian Art Number: | 31V66647 Ch05, 001C
Vic: Church
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| Attribution: | Purification of Isaiah's Lips, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=42491 [retrieved May 22, 2013]. |
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| Record Number: | 42491
Last Updated: 2012-02-14 15:08:44
Record Created: 2004-11-05 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: | Spiritual Passage and Pictorial Tragedy in the Romanesque Frescoes at Vicq. Kupfer, Maria. The Art Bulletin, vol. 68, no. 1, March 1986. |
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