Amiens Cathedral
Date
begun 1220
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View in Mapping Gothic
Related Fieldwork Collection
Basilique Cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens
Mère sotte--simple matron stirring pot
Angel bearing shield
Beggar
Young coquine listening
Bagpipe player
Young man's jouissance
Bearded man carrying basket of fruit
Baker wearing heavy imbricated collar; basket with round loaves
Renard the fox as mendicant preaching in front of 4 cocks and 2 hens
Apothecary with mortar and pestle
Young woman in bulky dress stabs herself
Two untonsured clerks singing from choir book
Young man with turban and banderole
Young robed man with dog
Adolescentula
Male figure with staff; male figure with turban-like hat
Wetnurse
Old man with bonnet
Child with toy riding horse
Young woman--praying?
Bearded man turning to his left to interact with neighbor
Thinly-clad man showing a coin, a hem (orle), and a death's head
Thinly-clad young man
Hercules slaying the hydra of Lerne
Hercules slaying the lion of Nemea. Now broken off
Woman selling fruit
The most grotesque of all the fools
Another apothecary
Pretty washerwoman
Hermit
A nun? Distracted?
Man holding a halberd (axe)
Man in bonnet (Phrygian cap?) holding banderole
La fillette--unusual hairdo. Holding decorated pot--Mary Magdalen?
Young man giving her the eye
Young man drinking
Le bon pâté!
La baigneuse
Huchier (carpenter)--perhaps one of the workers of the stalls
Kneeling young woman with furred robe. Smiles at passers by.
Pilgrim with staff and rosary
Young woman crying
Tailleur d'images. Pot under his workbench. The name TRUPIN carved on edge of handrest.
Adolescentula
Old man wearing bonnet
Kneeling person--broken off
Painter (woman?) with diptych
Brigand armed with bill hook
Une gracieuse petite personne
Young man kneeling--at prayer?
Wife who beats her husband with her distaff
Old rich bourgeois
Kneeling boy at prayer
Young mother; midwife?
Child holding shield with three shields
Le monnoyer striking coins
Maid packing mistress's dress in travel box
Dressmaker cutting cloth
Double-headed person holding bucket
Idiot or fool
Man with sword and shield
Man killing little dragon
Child in long robe
Adolescentula
Adolescentula
Female fox, wolf, or dog with hat and coat
A nun making confession to mendicant (Cordelier)
Maker of clogs
Noah's ark
Abraham offers bread and wine
Abraham and three angels
God renews promise all nations will be unified with Abraham
God has demanded a sacrifice; Abraham loads mule
After three days come to the place of sacrifice
Donkey unharnessed
Abraham, about to sacrifice Isaac, is shown a goat
Abraham sacrifices goats
Abraham now old, Isaac to take a wife
Caravan of 10 camels heads for Mesopotamia
Rebecca waters camels
Eliezar asks for water
Rebecca offers more water; Eliezar offers presents
Eliezar offers presents
Eliezar received in house of Bethuel
Departure of Rebecca
Rebecca, pregnant, in prayer
The children grown, Esau (hunter) and Jacob
Isaac calls Esau for game
Rebecca dresses Jacob as Esau
Jacob brings 2 goats to Rebecca
Jacob, dressed as Esau, before Isaac