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| Title: | Spears Are Beaten into Pruning Hooks |
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| Notes: | Quatrefoil on the western exterior, depicting Micah's prophecy regarding the future reign of peace in which nations beat their spears into pruning hooks and wage war no more.
First Sunday in Advent, Year A: The Hebrew Bible scripture passage for this Sunday is Isaiah, rather than Micah, but the theme is almost identical. Isaiah 2:4 reads, "He shall judge between the nations, and shall arbitrate for many peoples; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." In the Amiens sculpture relief, two workers are fashioning spears into their new, peaceful form.
Donated by James T. Womack and Anne Richardson, Nashville, TN. |
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| Date: | 1220-1240 |
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| Building: | Cathédrale d'Amiens
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| Object/Function: | Relief sculpture |
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| Material: | Stone |
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| City/Town: | Amiens
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| Country: | France
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| Scripture: | Micah 4:3
Isaiah 2:1-5
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| Person as Subject: | Micah (Biblical figure)
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| Lectionary links: | AAdvt01
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| General Subject: | Nations
Peace
Prophecy
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Amiens -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 71O422
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| Index of Christian Art Number: | 20 A51 CND 14W,002 H2
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https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=29241
(Use this link to refer back to this image.)
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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: | Spears Are Beaten into Pruning Hooks, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=29241 [retrieved April 19, 2024]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson. |
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| Record Number: | 29241
Last Updated: 2022-06-19 17:54:55
Record Created: 2003-04-26 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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