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| Title: | St. Savin - Adoration of the Virgin |
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| Notes: | Fresco on the lower left register of the second bay of the porch, depicting the enthroned Virgin censed by two angels hovering above her and attended on the left by eight clerks and their abbot, possibly symbolizing the St. Savin community, and on the right by a crowd of laymen among the first rank of which are seen the benefactors of the abbey, who are, from left to right, two crowned princes, a nimbused and hooded churchman, and a nimbused man holding out a crown or reliquary, possibly Charlemagne, Louis the Pious, Benedict of Aniane, and Guillaume le Grand Donated by James T. Womack and Anne Richardson, Nashville, TN. |
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| Date: | 1040-1090 |
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| Building: | Abbaye de Saint-Savin
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| City/Town: | Vienne
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| Country: | France
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| Person as Subject: | Benedict, of Aniane, ca.747-821
Charlemagne, Emperor, 748-814
Mary, the mother of Jesus (Biblical figure)
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| General Subject: | Abbey
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 11F32
11H(Charlemagne)
11H(William of Aquitaine)
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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: | St. Savin - Adoration of the Virgin, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=33274 [retrieved March 19, 2025]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson. |
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| Record Number: | 33274
Last Updated: 2022-06-20 19:05:44
Record Created: 2003-10-10 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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| Bibliographic Source: | Abbey of Saint-Savin, Vienne. Riou, Yves-Jean. Inventaire general, 1993. |
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