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| Title: | Chartres Cathedral; Christ, four Evangelists; tympanum and lintel, central portal, west facade |
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| Notes: | Tympanum and lintel of central portal, west facade. Christ in Majesty surrounded by symbols of four Evangelists (four animals.) The lion represents Mark, the ox represents Luke, the man represents Matthew, and the eagle represents John. Voussoirs of archivolts depict angels, 24 crowned ancients/musicians of the Apocalypse. The Apostles, Elijah and Enoch are carved on lintel. [Villette, pg. 29-36] Digitized from the slide collection of James T. Womack, Nashville, TN. |
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| Date: | 1145 |
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| Building: | Cathédrale de Chartres
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| Object/Function: | Relief sculpture |
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| Material: | Stone |
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| City/Town: | Chartres
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| Country: | France
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| Scripture: | Revelation 4:1-11
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| General Subject: | Four Evangelists
Apostles
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Chartres -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 11U1
11I42
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| Index of Christian Art Number: | 20 C48 CND 14W,001 A1
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| Copyright Source: | image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson |
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| Copyright Permission: | Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Attribution: | Chartres Cathedral; Christ, four Evangelists; tympanum and lintel, central portal, west facade, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=26288 [retrieved October 30, 2024]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson. |
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| Record Number: | 26288
Last Updated: 2022-06-17 13:52:40
Record Created: 2002-03-21 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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| Bibliographic Source: | Villette, Jean. Les Portails de la cathedrale de Chartres. Editions J.M. Garnier, 1994. |
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