| Title: | Christ the Good Shepherd |
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| Notes: | "As the viewer's eyes wander over the mosaic surface, they are drawn to the glittering gold of Christ's robes and the imperial purple of his mantle. This is no ordinary shepherd but Christ, the supreme ruler. The symmetry of the composition focuses attention on the golden cross. Christ's twisting movement and right arm also lead the eyes not only to the lamb but also to the tall, stemmed cross. The imperial staff joined to the Christian cross replaces the Constantinian Chi Rho monogram as the imperial standard and the symbol of the combined earthly and heavenly empires. The golden cross proclaims Christ's victory over death. That victory brings the hope of salvation for all faithful believers. "(Stokstad, 13-14) |
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| Date: | 5th century |
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| Building: | Mausoleum of Galla Placidia
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| Object/Function: | Mosaic |
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| City/Town: | Ravenna
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| Country: | Italy
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| Lectionary links: | BEast04
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| General Subject: | Good Shepherd
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 11D3271
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| Copyright Source: | Wikimedia Commons |
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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: | Christ the Good Shepherd, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=51106 [retrieved June 18, 2013]. Original source: Wikimedia Commons. |
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| Record Number: | 51106
Last Updated: 2011-04-14 10:53:24
Record Created: 2007-04-19 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: | Medieval art, 2nd ed. |
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| Author: | Stokstad, Marilyn |
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| Publisher: | Westview Press |
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| Date: | 2004 |
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