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| Title: | Chartres Cathedral; zodiac signs and labors of months; archivolts, left portal, west facade |
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| Notes: | Detail of archivolts of Ascension (left portal, west facade), depicting labors of months: April (- Allegory of Spring - man wearing garland of flowers and holding branches of blossoming tree), May (hunter with falcon on wrist holding horse by bridle), June (man mowing hay with scythe), July (man wearing cap cutting grass with sickle), August (man untying sheaves) and September (men treading grapes in vat), accompanied by signs of zodiac, Aries (Ram), Taurus (Bull), Cancer (Crab) and Leo (Lion). Digitized from the slide collection of James T. Womack, Nashville, TN. |
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| Date: | 1145 |
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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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| General Subject: | Zodiac
Labors of the months
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Chartres -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 23O
23K
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| Index of Christian Art Number: | 20 C48 CND 14W,001 B2
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https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=26281
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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; zodiac signs and labors of months; archivolts, left portal, west facade, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=26281 [retrieved April 24, 2024]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson. |
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| Record Number: | 26281
Last Updated: 2022-06-17 13:48:53
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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