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| Title: | Chartres Cathedral; Nativity, Adoration of Magi, Wise and Foolish Virgins, Virtues and Vices, Twelve Fruits of Holy Spirit; tympanum, left portal, north transept |
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| Notes: | View of tympanum of left portal (north transept), depicting scenes from the nativity, the adoration of the Magi, and the adoration of the shepherds. The archivolts (beginning with the lowest) represent angels, the wise and foolish virgins, the conflict of the vices and virtues, and the 12 fruits of the Holy Spirit (portrayed as women). [see also Villette, pg. 164-165] Digitized from the slide collection of James T. Womack, Nashville, TN. |
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| Date: | 1204-1210 |
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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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| Scripture: | Luke 2:(1-7), 8-20
Matthew 2:1-12
Galatians 5:1, 13-25
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| Lectionary links: | ANatv
AEpDy
CProp08
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| General Subject: | Shepherds
Nativity
Adoration of the Magi
Virtues and Vices
Wise and Foolish Virgins
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Chartres -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 73B13
73B57
73B14
73C841
11O
11E5
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| Index of Christian Art Number: | 20 C48 CND 14n,001
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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; Nativity, Adoration of Magi, Wise and Foolish Virgins, Virtues and Vices, Twelve Fruits of Holy Spirit; tympanum, left portal, north transept, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=26381 [retrieved January 20, 2025]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson. |
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| Record Number: | 26381
Last Updated: 2022-06-19 16:04:18
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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