| Title: | Chartres Cathedral; Isaiah, Gabriel, Mary; left embrasure jamb figures, left portal, north transept |
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| Notes: | Three jamb figures to the left of the left portal (north transept). From left: Isaiah (head has been destroyed), the angel Gabriel, and Mary receiving the Annunciation. Isaiah's presence refers to his prophecy ("a virgin will conceive"); his base is a dragon. Gabriel's base is a devil, and Mary stands on the dragon in the tree of knowledge (referring to Eve in the story of the fall). The Isaiah figure could also be Joseph, the husband of Mary. See Villette, pg. 161-163. 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 1:26-38
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| Person as Subject: | Mary, the mother of Jesus (Biblical figure)
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| Lectionary links: | BAdvt04
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| General Subject: | Annunciation to Mary
Angels
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Chartres -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 11I62(ISAIAH)
11G184
73A521
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| Index of Christian Art Number: | 20 C48 CND 14N,001 B4
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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; Isaiah, Gabriel, Mary; left embrasure jamb figures, 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=26385 [retrieved September 29, 2023]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson. |
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| Record Number: | 26385
Last Updated: 2022-06-19 16:06:07
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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