| Title: | Chartres Cathedral; zodiac signs and labors of months; archivolts, left portal, west facade |
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| Notes: | Detail of archivolts depicting the signs of the zodiac and the labors of the months. The figure in the center is Scorpio. The signs of the zodiac represent the passage of celestial time; the labors of the months represent the passage of terrestrial time. The juxtaposition of the two cycles began to appear on church portals in the twelfth century. 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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| City/Town: | Chartres
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| Country: | France
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| General Subject: | Scorpio
Zodiac
Labors of the months
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Chartres -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 23O42
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| Index of Christian Art Number: | 20 C48 CND 14W,001 B2
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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; zodiac signs and labors of months; archivolts, left 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=26359 [retrieved January 21, 2025]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson. |
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| Record Number: | 26359
Last Updated: 2022-06-17 14:18:47
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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