| Title: | Chartres Cathedral; John the Baptist; north tower |
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| Notes: | John the Baptist pointing to the Lamb of God; sixteenth century sculpture on the north tower. Lamb of God is one of the titles given to Jesus in the New Testament and consequently in the Christian tradition. It is believed to refer to Jesus' role as a sacrificial lamb atoning for the sins of man in Christian theology, harkening back to ancient Jewish Temple sacrifices in which a lamb was slain during the passover, the blood was sprinkled along the door, and the lamb was eaten. Digitized from the slide collection of James T. Womack, Nashville, TN. |
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| Date: | 1500 |
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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: | John 1:29-42
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| Person as Subject: | John, the Baptist (Biblical figure)
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| Lectionary links: | AEpip02
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| General Subject: | Lamb of God
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Chartres -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 11H(JOHN THE BAPTIST)
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https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=26373
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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; John the Baptist; north tower, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=26373 [retrieved March 16, 2025]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson. |
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| Record Number: | 26373
Last Updated: 2022-06-17 14:24:40
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: | Wikipedia. Community authorship. http://en.wikipedia.org |
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