| Title: | St. Savin - Moses Receiving the Tablets of the Law |
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| Notes: | Fresco on the lower north register of the nave, depicting God, who's standing in a mandorla surrounded by clouds, giving the tablets of the Law to Moses who is kneeling on a rugged terrain evocative of Mt. Sinai, while angels on the left and right blow their long horns 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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| Scripture: | Exodus 31:18
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| Person as Subject: | God (Biblical figure)
Moses (Biblical figure)
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| Lectionary links: | AProp22
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| General Subject: | Law
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 71E1343
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https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=33283
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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 - Moses Receiving the Tablets of the Law, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=33283 [retrieved February 19, 2025]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson. |
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| Record Number: | 33283
Last Updated: 2022-06-20 19:06:11
Record Created: 2003-10-10 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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