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08 SSS GARTEMPE MOSES RECEIVING THE TABLETS OF THE LAW.jpg
08 SSS Gartempe Moses Receiving the Tablets of the Law
Images of Religious and Theological Iconography
Vanderbilt University, Divinity Library
Nashville, TN, 2003
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Title: Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe, France - Moses Receiving the Tablets of the Law
Creator(s) or Contributor(s): Womack, James, photographer
Description: Fresco on the lower north register of the nave, depicting God, who's standing in a mandorla surrounded by clouds, giving the tablets of the Law to Moses who is kneeling on a rugged terrain evocative of Mt. Sinai, while angels on the left and right blow their long horns. JPG file (722 KB)
Source: Digitized from slide
Subject: Christian art and symbolism--France--Medieval, 500-1500
EX 31: 18
Moses (Biblical leader); God; Angel
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