| Title: | Jesus visits his mother, Mary, and the Assumption of Mary |
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| Notes: | A section from the renowned oak woodcarvings in the choirstall area of the Cathedral of Amiens, 1508-1519. "The texts of the Assumption [of Mary, the mother of Jesus] apocrypha fall into two principal forms. In the Coptic form, Jesus appears to Mary before the Apostles have left on their missionary work and informs her of her imminent death and assumption." (Johnson, 27) |
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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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| Person as Subject: | Jesus Christ
Mary, the mother of Jesus
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| Lectionary links: | CEast07
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| General Subject: | Assumption of the Virgin
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Amiens -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 73E42
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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: | Jesus visits his mother, Mary, and the Assumption 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=51554 [retrieved May 25, 2013]. Original source: Collection of Anne Richardson Womack. |
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| Record Number: | 51554
Last Updated: 2011-04-27 16:56:48
Record Created: 2007-06-08 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: | Saint Michael the Archangel in medieval English legend |
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| Author: | Johnson, Richard Freeman |
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| Publisher: | Boydell Press |
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| Date: | 2005 |
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