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Click to view high resolution image Title: Synagoga Creator: Description: Synagogue is personified as a beautiful woman. She wears a blindfold to represent the spiritual "blindness" of the Jews and holds a broken staff in her right hand that indicates her fall from power. The tablets of the Law slip from her left hand. She was contrasted with the figure of Ecclesia (not pictured), originally on the opposite column of the south portal, who wears a crown, carries a cross, and holds a chalice for the Eucharist. Ecclesia represents the Church Triumphant and the new dispensation for salvation. Source: Wikimedia Commons Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Unported France Subject (See Also): Antisemitism Personification Synagoga, Allegorical Figure for the Old Law and for Judaism Geographic Area: France Century: 13 Date: ca. 1230 Related Work: Ecclesia: . Strasbourg Cathedral, South portal with replicas of Synagoga and Ecclesia: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Notre-Dame,_Strasbourg,_south_portal.JPG Current Location: Strasbourg, Musée de l'Oeuvre Notre-Dame Original Location: Strasbourg, Cathedral, south transept portal Artistic Type (Category): Digital images; Sculptures Artistic Type (Material/Technique): Column figures Donor: Height/Width/Length(cm): 193 cm// Inscription: Related Resources:

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