| Title: | St. Savin - Fifth Angel of the Apocalypse |
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| Notes: | Fresco on the upper left register of the second bay of the porch, depicting the fifth angel of the Apocalypse who blows the trumpet and opens the bottomless pit, releasing the gold-crowned locusts with human faces, women's hair, lion's teeth, scales like iron breastplates, and scorpion's tails, and to which is given the power to torment for five months those without the seal of God on their foreheads Donated by James T. Womack and Anne Richardson, Nashville, TN. |
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| Date: | 1040-1090 |
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| Building: | Abbaye de Saint-Savin
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| City/Town: | Vienne
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| Country: | France
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| Person as Subject: | Angel (Biblical figure)
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| General Subject: | Angels
Apocalypse: Revelation
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 73G325
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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: | St. Savin - Fifth Angel of the Apocalypse, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=33262 [retrieved January 24, 2025]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson. |
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| Record Number: | 33262
Last Updated: 2022-06-20 19:05:12
Record Created: 2003-10-09 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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| Bibliographic Source: | Abbey of Saint-Savin, Vienne. Riou, Yves-Jean. Inventaire general, 1993. |
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