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. Scorpio (the scorpion) is seen here, and above Scorpio is the month of December, showing a husband and wife celebrating a holiday festivity of feasting. [Villette, pg. 54] 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 in 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: | Zodiac
Scorpio
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
23K43
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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=26363 [retrieved February 13, 2025]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson. |
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Record Number: | 26363
Last Updated: 2022-06-17 14:20:49
Record Created: 2002-03-21 00:00:00 |
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. |