| Title: | Birth of Mary |
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| Notes: | Oak woodcarving in the choirstall area of the Cathedral of Amiens, 1507-1522. On the left is the birth of Mary and on the right, the meeting of Anna and Joachim, Mary's parents. These themes are extra-biblical from early traditions on the life of Mary. |
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| Date: | 1508-1519 |
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| Building: | Cathédrale d'Amiens
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| Object/Function: | Relief sculpture |
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| Material: | Wood |
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| City/Town: | Amiens
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| Country: | France
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| General Subject: | Life of Mary
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Amiens -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| Copyright Source: | Collection of Anne Richardson Womack |
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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: | Birth of Mary, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=51549 [retrieved March 24, 2019]. Original source: Collection of Anne Richardson Womack. |
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| Record Number: | 51549
Last Updated: 2011-01-13 17:27:10
Record Created: 2007-06-08 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Unit:
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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