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The English origins of the Coronation of the Virgin
12/2005 | 1233 | 147
Pages: 790-797
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Author:
Heslop, T. A. (Heslop, T. A.)
Subjects
buildings:
Worcester Cathedral, Worcester, Great Britain
dates:
1100-1199 / 1200-1299
print:
Mary, Virgin: Coronation
print:
British sculpture
subjects:
British architecture / British sculpture / Mary, Virgin: Coronation / Christian iconography / Visual sources
subjects:
Religious architecture / Religious art
subjects:
Commentaries / Illuminated manuscripts / Manuscripts
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
1. Coronation of the Virgin, capital originally from Reading Abbey. c.1130. Caen stone, 19 by 30 cm. (Reading Museum and Art Gallery).
Western art unattributed:
2. Interior of the chapter house, Worcester Cathedral. c.1100 with late fourteenth-century alterations.
Western art unattributed:
3. Unveiling of Synagogue, Worcester? c.1260. Parchment, size of folio 27.5 by 17.7 cm. (Eton College Library; MS 177, fol.7r; photograph courtesy of the Provost and Fellows of Eton College).
Western art unattributed:
4. Coronation of the Virgin, Worcester? c.1260. Parchment, size of folio 27.5 by 17.7 cm. (Eton College Library; MS 177, fol.7v; photograph courtesy of the Provost and Fellows of Eton College).
Western art unattributed:
5. Commentary on the Song of Songs (detail), Worcester c.1100. Parchment, size of folio 28 by 19 cm. (British Library, London; MS Royal 4 B iv, fol.94r).
Western art unattributed:
6. Reconstruction of the pictures in bays nine and ten of the chapter house, Worcester Cathedral. Bay ten, left to right, top to bottom: Pax cum lusticia gaudet pariete Maria/ Cum puer accessit quem virgo puerpera gessit; Virtus virtuti venit aucta salusque saluti/ Gracia cum Legi datur obvia sponsaque regi; Dote subarrata fidei meritisque sacrata/ Sponsa coronatur sponsoque deo sociatur; Hinc se Iudea Christo ligat hinc Idumea/ Ut fiat domino grex unus de grege bino. Bay nine, left to right, top to bottom: Spiritus in celis suspenditur Ezechielis/ Cum divinarum cernit secreta rotarum; Dona dat etherea regi regina sabea/ Scilicet ecclesia quam palliat allegoria; Hactenus obscuris legis velata figuris/ Adveniente fide rem synagoga gracia splendet ei; Vox verbum vite precedens clamo venite/ Pando viam numen tenebre cognoscite lumen.
Western art unattributed:
7. Tympanum with the Coronation of the Virgin, c.1140-50. (St Mary's, Quenington, Gloucestershire).
Western art unattributed:
8. First seal of Reading Abbey, c.1125. Nineteenth-century cast, 7.8 by 5.8 cm. (Society of Antiquaries, London).