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Source Description
The edges of this intricately crafted plaque suggest that it may have been set into the cover of a Bible. Its pictorial complexity suggests that it was influenced by manuscript illumination in which color distinctions would make it easier to read detail. Landscape details, the most difficult of all to depict in metal, have been left out.Motifs evoking Christ's role in human redemption include: Adam's skull marking the site as Golgotha (means Place of the Skull), the sun and moon referring to Christ's Judgement at the end of time, angels collecting Christ's blood in chalices, and two bearded men in robes debating whether Christ really is the Messiah. While the man marked as a Jew by his pointed hat calls out, "If you are the Son of God come down from the cross," the believer counters, "Truly this man was the Son of God."
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
13473
label
Crucifixion
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obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
13473
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Crucifixion
description
The edges of this intricately crafted plaque suggest that it may have been set into the cover of a Bible. Its pictorial complexity suggests that it was influenced by manuscript illumination in which color distinctions would make it easier to read detail. Landscape details, the most difficult of all to depict in metal, have been left out.Motifs evoking Christ's role in human redemption include: Adam's skull marking the site as Golgotha (means Place of the Skull), the sun and moon referring to Christ's Judgement at the end of time, angels collecting Christ's blood in chalices, and two bearded men in robes debating whether Christ really is the Messiah. While the man marked as a Jew by his pointed hat calls out, "If you are the Son of God come down from the cross," the believer counters, "Truly this man was the Son of God."
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1420-1440 (Late Medieval)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Metal
plaques
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
28.5
height
23.5
depth
4
dimensionsRaw
11 1/4 x 9 1/4 x 1 9/16 in. (28.5 x 23.5 x 4 cm)
Source extras
cul
Medieval European
style
International Gothic
med
gilded copper
creator_ids
6211
15361
collection_ids
REN
MED
exhibition_ids
2064
Single page context
seq
1
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0
type
photo
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