| Title: | Chartres Cathedral; zodiac signs and labors of the 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. Cancer and Aries are seen, with (above) hay harvesting (June labor) and the Allegory of Spring (April labor.) [Villette, pg. 50-51] 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: | Aries the Ram
Cancer the Crab
June
Labors of the months
Zodiac
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Chartres -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 23O21
23O31
23K21
23K23
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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 the 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=26362 [retrieved June 9, 2023]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson. |
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| Record Number: | 26362
Last Updated: 2022-06-17 14:20:18
Record Created: 2002-03-21 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Unit:
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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