| Title: | Choirstall woodcarving of the Pentecost, with tongues of fire descending upon the apostles, detail |
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| Notes: | "The divine self-disclosure at Pentecost was a dramatic theophany, accompanied by the sound of wind and tongues of fire. Pentecost was an event that not only harkened back to the dramatic events of the giving of the law at Sinai and the presence of God for the prophets, but also centred in God's self-disclosure in the Incarnation, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Pentecost theophany not only inaugurates the kingdom, but also looks forward to the final theophany of God in the parousia, when the Lord comes in judgement with signs of blood, fire and smoke (Acts 2:19-20). Tongues, like the kairos event of the Pentecost theophany, is a vehicle of divine self-disclosure that transforms language and hints at the future transformation of the world." (Althouse, 100) |
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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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| Scripture: | Acts 2:1-4
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| Lectionary links: | BPDay
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| General Subject: | Pentecost
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Amiens -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 73E5
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http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=51555
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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: | Choirstall woodcarving of the Pentecost, with tongues of fire descending upon the apostles, detail, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=51555 [retrieved June 20, 2013]. Original source: Collection of Anne Richardson Womack. |
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| Record Number: | 51555
Last Updated: 2012-02-10 15:25:40
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: | Spirit of the last days |
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| Author: | Althouse, Peter |
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| Publisher: | Continuum International Publishing |
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| Date: | 2003 |
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