| Title: | Chartres Cathedral; Melchizedek, Abraham, Isaac, Moses, Samuel (Aaron), David; left embrasure jamb figures of the central portal, north transept |
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| Notes: | Left embrasure figures of the central portal, north transept. From left, Melchizedek with chalice; Abraham with bound Isaac; Moses holding the tablets of the law and standing beside a brazen serpent; Samuel sacrificing a lamb or Aaron presenting a sin offering (ICAD); David crowned and holding a lance. 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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| City/Town: | Chartres
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| Country: | France
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| Scripture: | Genesis 14:18-20
Genesis 22:1-18
Exodus 34:29-35
Hebrews 5:5-10
Samuel I, 7:7-11
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Chartres -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 71C117
71C131
71E134
71F8421
11I62(DAVID)
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| Index of Christian Art Number: | 20 C48 CND 14N,001 A6a
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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; Melchizedek, Abraham, Isaac, Moses, Samuel (Aaron), David; left embrasure jamb figures of the 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=26252 [retrieved March 26, 2025]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson. |
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| Record Number: | 26252
Last Updated: 2022-06-17 13:46:45
Record Created: 2002-03-21 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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| Bibliographic Source: | Amiens: Les Verrieres de la Cathedrale. Frachon-Gielarek, Nathalie. Inventaire general des monuments et des richesses artistiques de la France, 2003. |
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