| Title: | Chartres Cathedral; zodiac signs and labors of months; archivolts, left portal, west facade |
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| Notes: | Detail of archivolts depicting the signs of the zodiac and the labors of the months. January is on the left bottom, cutting the King's Cake. Capricorn is above. October is on the right bottom, harvesting acorns by hitting the tree. Above is Libra. 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: | Libra
Janus
Capricorn
Labors of the months
Zodiac
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Chartres -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 23O11
23O41
23K11
23K41
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| Index of Christian Art Number: | 20 C48 CND 14W,001 B2
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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=26360 [retrieved March 16, 2025]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson. |
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| Record Number: | 26360
Last Updated: 2022-06-17 14:19:15
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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