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| Title: | Chartres Cathedral; Coronation, Death and Assumption of the Virgin; tympanum and lintel, central portal, north transept |
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| Notes: | Coronation, Death and Assumption of the Virgin. Above, on tympanum, Mary, mother of Jesus (crowned) sits on throne beside Christ (seated, crowned, holding book). Below, on lintel, left depicts the death of virgin surrounded by apostles, and right, angels lifting virgin from sarcophagus. [Villette, pg. 141-142] Digitized from the slide collection of James T. Womack, Nashville, TN. |
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| Date: | 1204-1210 |
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| Building: | Cathédrale de Chartres
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| Object/Function: | Relief sculpture |
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| Material: | Stone |
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| City/Town: | Chartres
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| Country: | France
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| General Subject: | Assumption of Mary
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Chartres -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 73E7
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| Index of Christian Art Number: | 20 C48 CND 14N,001 A1-A2
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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: | Chartres Cathedral; Coronation, Death and Assumption of the Virgin; tympanum and lintel, central portal, north transept, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=26246 [retrieved December 8, 2023]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson. |
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| Record Number: | 26246
Last Updated: 2022-06-17 13:44:10
Record Created: 2002-03-21 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: | Villette, Jean. Les Portails de la cathedrale de Chartres. Editions J.M. Garnier, 1994. |
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