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Source Description
This beautiful and well-preserved diptych includes its original polychromy, gilding, and silver hinges, though these are no longer connected. With its lapis background, red roof tiles, and gilded details of the figures’ clothing, the appearance is one of luxuriousness. The diptych provides us with a rare and vivid impression of how such devotional ivories were originally decorated in the 1300s.
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Document identity
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145485
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Diptych with Scenes from the Life of Saint Martin of Tours: The Consecration of Saint Martin as Bishop (left); Saint Martin Shares his Cloak with a Beggar
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145485
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object
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Diptych with Scenes from the Life of Saint Martin of Tours: The Consecration of Saint Martin as Bishop (left); Saint Martin Shares his Cloak with a Beggar
description
This beautiful and well-preserved diptych includes its original polychromy, gilding, and silver hinges, though these are no longer connected. With its lapis background, red roof tiles, and gilded details of the figures’ clothing, the appearance is one of luxuriousness. The diptych provides us with a rare and vivid impression of how such devotional ivories were originally decorated in the 1300s.
date
1340–1350
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CC0
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language
en
wikidata
Q60756766
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Ivory
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 9.2 cm (3 5/8 in.); Closed: 5.2 cm (2 1/16 in.)
cul
Germany, Cologne
accession
1971.103
Source extras
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ivory with polychromy and gilding, original silver hinges
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Diptych with Scenes from the Life of Saint Martin of Tours: The Consecration of Saint Martin as Bishop (left); Saint Martin Shares his Cloak with a Beggar, 1340–1350. Germany, Cologne. Ivory with polychromy and gilding, original silver hinges; overall: 9.2 cm (3 5/8 in.); closed: 5.2 cm (2 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1971.103
collection
MED - Gothic
citations
citation
Barnet, Peter. <em>Images in Ivory: Precious Objects of the Gothic Age</em>. Detroit, MI: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1997.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 198-199
citation
“Twelve Additions to the Medieval Treasury.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 59, no. 4 (April 1972): 87–111.
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Mentioned and reproduced: p. 95-101, fig. 23z, Back Cover
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 61
citation
Täube , Dagmar von, Miriam Verena Fleck, eds. <em>Glanz und Grösse des Mittelalters: Kölner Meisterwerke aus den grossen Sammlungen der Welt</em>. München, Germany: Hirmer Verlag, 2011.
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Mentioned and reproduced: p. 271-273
creditline
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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2026-05-29 07:28:26.562000
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145485
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Medieval Art
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MED - Gothic
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ivory with polychromy and gilding, original silver hinges
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