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General View-Sts. Laumer, Leo, Ambrose, and Nicholas
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Title
General View-Sts. Laumer, Leo, Ambrose, and Nicholas
Contributor
Colum P. Hourihane (contributor)
University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Contributor
Colum P. Hourihane
Identifier
FCSP333610120
Description
Jamb Statue; Gothic; South Porch, Right Portal, Left Jambs- General ViewGeneral view of the left jambs of the Right Portal. The figures are four "Confessors", important intellectual and spiritual leaders, most of whom lived during the early centuries of the Church. They stand on historiated socles- there are canopies offer their heads with architectural motifs. From left to right they are 1) Laumer (also called Lomer or Laudomarus), a local saint who was founder and Abbot of the nearby monastery of Corbion in the 6th century.2) Pope Leo I, an influential early Pope3) a figure that is either Ambrose or Thomas Becket 4) Nicholas, bishop of Myra (two of his miracles appear in the tympanum)The figure of Laumer was added after the rest of the portal was created.; South Porch, Right Portal, Left Jambs
Type
still image
Genre
photographs
Subject
Cathédrale de Chartres--Pictorial works.
Church decoration and ornament--France--Chartres--Pictorial works.
Church architecture--France--Chartres--Pictorial works.
Christian art and symbolism--France--Chartres--Medieval, 500-1500--Pictorial works.
Geographic Subjects
France
Chartres
Collection
Chartres: Cathedral of Notre-Dame
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh
Rights Information
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