| Title: | Chartres Cathedral; Apostles; lintel, central portal, west facade |
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| Notes: | Lintel beneath tympanum (west facade): figures of apostles beneath winged lion (Mark) and Christ in glory (both partial view). Three apostles can be identified: Peter, directly below Christ on the viewer's left, with tightly curled hair and beard, holding part of the key to the kingdom; John, the unbearded youth to Peter's right; and Paul, holding the open parchment scroll. Elijah is the standing figure at the viewer's far left. [Villette, pg. 35-36] 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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| Person as Subject: | Peter, the Apostle (Biblical figure)
John, the Apostle (Biblical figure)
Paul, the Apostle (Biblical figure)
Elijah (Biblical figure)
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Chartres -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 11H(PETER)
11H(JOHN)
11H(PAUL)
11I62(ELIJAH)
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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; Apostles; 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=26319 [retrieved January 15, 2025]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson. |
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| Record Number: | 26319
Last Updated: 2022-06-17 14:06:31
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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