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Source Description
A monstrance is a container for the Host, the Communion wafer that, when consecrated during the Mass, is believed to become the real body of Christ. Here, an angel on a cloud raises aloft the frame that once supported the Host. The sheaves of wheat and the grapes among the clouds of the frame are symbols of the body (bread from the wheat) and blood (wine from the grapes) of Christ.
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Document identity
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14348
label
Monstrance with Angel Standing on Clouds
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object
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1
Source metadata
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14348
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object
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normalized
title
Monstrance with Angel Standing on Clouds
description
A monstrance is a container for the Host, the Communion wafer that, when consecrated during the Mass, is believed to become the real body of Christ. Here, an angel on a cloud raises aloft the frame that once supported the Host. The sheaves of wheat and the grapes among the clouds of the frame are symbols of the body (bread from the wheat) and blood (wine from the grapes) of Christ.
provenance
F. Ongania, Venice [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1700-1750
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CC0
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en
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monstrances
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1
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
31 1/2 in. (80 cm)
Source extras
med
silver, gilded metal, amethyst, and quartz
creator_ids
6200
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BAR
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none
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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491f081108e3d22e