Building Name

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Saint-Austremoine  

Location

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Choir

Capital

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1

Subject

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Annunciation

Description

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Capital of column at left of entrance to abside, on the south arm of the transept. Two angels look to the Virgin. The angel on the left makes a gesture of salutation, the angel on the right holds an open book with inscription

Reference

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The angelic greeting is in Luke (1, 28) but this is the liturgical formula. The second part of the text, Spiritus sanctus super[veniet in te] is found in Luke 1,35. This scene is also found in the same place at Issoire, at the beginning of an iconographic program in the sanctuary that is reserved for the themes of the Passion and Resurrection of Christ. The capital can be dated to the tweflth century. See Skubiszewski, "Une Annonciation à deux anges à Issoire," dans De la création à la restauration. Travaux d'histoire de l'art offerts à Marcel Durliat pour sons 75e anniversaire (Toulouse, 1992), pp. 307-317.

Corpus Ref.

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vol. 18, Allier, Cantal, Loire, Haute-Loire, Puy-de-Dôme, 217-218