| Title: | Birth of Christ |
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| Notes: | A short essay on the artistic and spiritual meaning of this artwork is available from The Visual Commentary on Scripture, https://thevcs.org/children-light/choreography-light. |
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| Date: | 1645-1648 |
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| Artist: | La Tour, Georges du Mesnil de, 1593-1652 |
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| Building: | Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes
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| Object/Function: | Painting |
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| City/Town: | Paris
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| Country: | France
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| Scripture: | Psalm 36:5-11
Ephesians 5:8-14
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| Person as Subject: | Anne (the mother of Mary, apocryphal)
Mary, the mother of Jesus (Biblical figure)
Jesus Christ (Biblical figure)
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| Lectionary links: | ANatv
BNatv
CNatv
BHoly01
ALent04
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| General Subject: | Birth
Visual Commentary on Scripture
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 73B2
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https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=46764
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| Copyright Source: | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georges_de_La_Tour_-_Newlyborn_infant_-_Mus%C3%A9e_des_Beaux-Arts_de_Rennes.jpg |
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| Copyright Permission: | Please visit the URL in the Copyright Source field on this page for details about reusing this image. |
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| Attribution: | La Tour, Georges du Mesnil de, 1593-1652. Birth of Christ, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=46764 [retrieved April 19, 2024]. Original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georges_de_La_Tour_-_Newlyborn_infant_-_Mus%C3%A9e_des_Beaux-Arts_de_Rennes.jpg. |
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| Record Number: | 46764
Last Updated: 2021-09-18 15:57:00
Record Created: 2006-08-16 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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