| Title: | Massacre of the Innocents |
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| Notes: | Quatrefoil on the western exterior depicting the babies being massacred on Herod's order (helmeted soldier wearing mail, holding sword, grasping child held by mother and kneeling mother holding head of decapitated child). Donated by James T. Womack and Anne Richardson, Nashville, TN. |
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| Date: | 1220-1240 |
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| Building: | Cathédrale d'Amiens
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| Object/Function: | Relief sculpture |
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| Material: | Stone |
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| City/Town: | Amiens
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| Country: | France
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| Scripture: | Matthew 2:13-23
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| Lectionary links: | AXmas01
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| General Subject: | Massacre of the Innocents
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Amiens -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 73B6331
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| Index of Christian Art Number: | 20 A51 CND 14W,002 J2
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https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=29211
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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: | Massacre of the Innocents, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=29211 [retrieved December 12, 2024]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson. |
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| Record Number: | 29211
Last Updated: 2022-06-19 17:41:50
Record Created: 2003-04-26 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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