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Source Description
Christ and the apostles are gathered around a table framed by buildings and porticoes evocative of Jerusalem. Two of the apostles (right) try to prevent Judas from dipping his hand into the central bowl containing a fish, symbol of Christ himself. This ivory plaque, with an abstract, geometric style based on Byzantine models, is one of three from a larger ensemble of the Passion cycle, perhaps from an altar frontal. Two related plaques featuring the Washing of the Feet and the Prayer at the Mount of Olives are in the Museo Civico, Bologna.
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Document identity
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30606
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The Last Supper
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30606
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title
The Last Supper
description
Christ and the apostles are gathered around a table framed by buildings and porticoes evocative of Jerusalem. Two of the apostles (right) try to prevent Judas from dipping his hand into the central bowl containing a fish, symbol of Christ himself. This ivory plaque, with an abstract, geometric style based on Byzantine models, is one of three from a larger ensemble of the Passion cycle, perhaps from an altar frontal. Two related plaques featuring the Washing of the Feet and the Prayer at the Mount of Olives are in the Museo Civico, Bologna.
provenance
Count Gregoire Stroganoff (Grigorii Sergeevich Stroganov), Rome, prior to 1900; Kurt Cassirer, Rome, prior to 1925; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1100 (Medieval)
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CC0
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en
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Ivory & Bone
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altarpieces
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3
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import
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cm
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10.7
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26
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1.1
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4 3/16 x 10 1/4 x 7/16 in. (10.7 x 26 x 1.1 cm)
Source extras
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Italian
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Romanesque
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ivory
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33562
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680
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