| Title: | St. Savin - Calling of Abraham |
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| Notes: | Fresco on the upper south register of the nave depicting God speaking to Abraham to call him out of his native country with a promise of land and posterity.
"For Abraham's own country and kindred had most of them fallen off; and without some extraordinary interposition of Providence, in all likelihood, in a generation or two more, the true religion in this line would have been extinct. And therefor God called Abraham, the person in whose family he intended to uphold the true religion, out of his own country, and from his kindred, to a far distant country, that his posterity might there remain a people separate from all the rest of the world; that so the true religion might be upheld there..." (Edwards, 543) 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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| Object/Function: | Fresco |
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| City/Town: | Vienne
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| Country: | France
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| Scripture: | Genesis 12:1-4a
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| Person as Subject: | God (Biblical figure)
Abraham (Biblical figure)
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| Lectionary links: | AProp05
ALent02
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 71C1131
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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 - Calling of Abraham, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=33460 [retrieved April 20, 2024]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson. |
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| Record Number: | 33460
Last Updated: 2022-06-20 19:10:17
Record Created: 2003-10-31 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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| Bibliographic Source: | Works of Jonathan Edwards |
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| Author: | Edwards, Jonathan, and Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman |
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| Publisher: | General Books LLC |
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| Date: | 2010 |
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