| Title: | Rebuilding of the House of God |
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| Notes: | Quatrefoil on the western exterior, representing Haggai's prophetic speech in which God asks the people to build a new temple, greater than the previous one.
First Sunday in Advent, Year A: This image represents the House of the Lord that Isaiah and the Psalmist emphasize, "Let us go up to the House of the Lord," personified in Jerusalem.
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: | Haggai 1:15b-2:9
Psalm 122
Isaiah 2:1-5
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| Person as Subject: | Haggai (Biblical figure)
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| Lectionary links: | AAdvt01
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| General Subject: | Jerusalem
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Amiens -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 71S11
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| Index of Christian Art Number: | 20 A51 CND 14W,002 B2
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| Permalink: |
https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=29284
(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: | Rebuilding of the House of God, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=29284 [retrieved March 19, 2025]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson. |
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| Record Number: | 29284
Last Updated: 2022-06-19 18:04:22
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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