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| Title: | Laon; Coronation, Death, and Assumption of the Virgin, Tree of Jesse, Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ, Jesse, David, Bathesheba; tympanum and archivolts of the center portal, west facade (Coronation Portal) |
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| Notes: | On the tympanum, Virgin Mary, crowned, sits opposite her son, surrounded by two angels standing and holding censors and two others kneeling. The lintel shows Mary's death and burial. The archivolt 1 (innermost) depicts angels carrying Virgin's possessions; the archivolts 2 and 3 depict the Tree of Jesse (with Jesse, asleep, holding the tree, and both King David with his harp and Bathesheba, Solomon's mother, on the boughs), and the prophets who announced Christ's birth. [Martinet 7] Digitized from the slide collection of James T. Womack, Nashville, TN. |
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| Date: | 1155 |
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| Building: | Cathédrale de Laon
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| City/Town: | Laon
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| Country: | France
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| Scripture: | Isaiah 11:1-10
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| Lectionary links: | AAdvt02
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| General Subject: | Tree of Jesse
Assumption of Mary
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Laon -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 73E7
73A21
11I1
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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: | Laon; Coronation, Death, and Assumption of the Virgin, Tree of Jesse, Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ, Jesse, David, Bathesheba; tympanum and archivolts of the center portal, west facade (Coronation Portal), from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=27225 [retrieved May 27, 2023]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson. |
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| Record Number: | 27225
Last Updated: 2022-06-19 17:18:34
Record Created: 2002-08-01 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
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Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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| Bibliographic Source: | Martinet, Suzanne. Laon Cathedral. [Laon, France]: Impr. du Courrier de l'Aisne, 1989. |
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