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Title:Fall into Ruin of the House of God
Notes:Quatrefoil on the western exterior, representing Haggai's prophetic speech according to which God points to the Temple that lies in ruins (in quatrefoil above) and asks it to be rebuilt.

Donated by James T. Womack and Anne Richardson, Nashville, TN.

Date:1220-1240
Building:Cathédrale d'Amiens
Object/Function:Relief sculpture
Material:Stone
City/Town:Amiens
Country:France
Scripture:Haggai 1:1-11
Person as Subject:Haggai (Biblical figure)
Lectionary links:CProp21
General Subject:Temple
Building
Library of Congress Subject:Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Amiens -- Medieval, 500-1500
ICONCLASS Number:71S11
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Copyright Source:image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson
Copyright Permission:Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0
Attribution:Fall into Ruin of the House of God, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=29285 [retrieved December 12, 2024]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson.
Record Number:29285 Last Updated: 2022-06-19 18:04:48 Record Created: 2003-04-26 00:00:00
Institution:Vanderbilt University Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition