Wall Tabernacle in the Form of the Sepulcher of Christ

ca. 1490-1500 (Renaissance)

85.3 cm 97.8 cm 7 cm

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In Catholic churches in Renaissance Italy, the tabernacle was a receptacle for a supply of consecrated wafers (for celebrating the Mass) frequently inserted into the wall next to the altar. This marble tabernacle was designed to suggest the entrance to Christ’s sepulcher, or t...

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Jacques Seligman; Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Seligman on March 20, 1922 [per notation on back of photo in Seligman's files]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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