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Source Description
The hinge marks along the outer edge of the left-hand panel suggest that these two reliquary panels are fragments of a larger ensemble. Its incomplete state might explain why the scenes include the Resurrection and the Ascension (upper left), Pentecost (upper right), the Death of the Virgin (middle left), and the Last Judgment (lower right), but not earlier events, such as the Crucifixion. Painted inscriptions identify the saints in the arches: Sts. Stephen and Lawrence and Sts. Vincent and Peter Martyr (middle right), and Sts. Margaret and Christina and St. Ursula and her maidens (lower left). The now-empty cavities in the frame originally contained relics.
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Document identity
localId
559
label
New Testament and Apocryphal Scenes with Saints
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obj
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drawing
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2
Source metadata
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559
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contentType
drawing
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normalized
title
New Testament and Apocryphal Scenes with Saints
description
The hinge marks along the outer edge of the left-hand panel suggest that these two reliquary panels are fragments of a larger ensemble. Its incomplete state might explain why the scenes include the Resurrection and the Ascension (upper left), Pentecost (upper right), the Death of the Virgin (middle left), and the Last Judgment (lower right), but not earlier events, such as the Crucifixion. Painted inscriptions identify the saints in the arches: Sts. Stephen and Lawrence and Sts. Vincent and Peter Martyr (middle right), and Sts. Margaret and Christina and St. Ursula and her maidens (lower left). The now-empty cavities in the frame originally contained relics.
provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1881 catalogue: no. 11-12, as Giotto; 1897 catalogue: no. 35 as School of Giotto]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1360-1369 (Medieval)
citationUrl
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CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
panel paintings
reliquaries
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2
pageCount
2
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
54.9
height
52.2
dimensionsRaw
Both panels H: 21 5/8 x W: 20 9/16 in. (54.93 x 52.23 cm); Proper right panel H: 21 5/8 x W: 10 1/4 in. (54.93 x 26.04 cm); Proper left panel H: 21 5/8 x W: 10 1/8 in. (54.93 x 25.72 cm)
style
Gothic
Source extras
inscriptions
[Transcription] Names of the saints at the top of the frames of the compartments: S. STEPHANUS. S. LAURECIUS. S. UICENCIUS. S. PETRUS MARTYR. S. MARGARITA. S. XRINA. S. URSOLINA.
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tempera and gold leaf on panel
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3121
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MED
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2115
Page inventory
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1
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photo
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2
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photo
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ab3a926fbbabed98
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