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Source Description
St. Luke is seated at a lectern writing his Gospel, with his symbol, a winged ox, emerging from a cloud above. The abstract, linear quality of the drapery, with its zigzag folds, is characteristic of 11th-century style. This book-cover plaque originally would have been seen with plaques of the other three Evangelists, serving as "author portraits" for the Gospel texts. It may have been made in the same workshop as the ivories on the cover of the Mondsee Gospels (Walters W.8).
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Document identity
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15153
label
Saint Luke the Evangelist
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Source metadata
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15153
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object
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title
Saint Luke the Evangelist
description
St. Luke is seated at a lectern writing his Gospel, with his symbol, a winged ox, emerging from a cloud above. The abstract, linear quality of the drapery, with its zigzag folds, is characteristic of 11th-century style. This book-cover plaque originally would have been seen with plaques of the other three Evangelists, serving as "author portraits" for the Gospel texts. It may have been made in the same workshop as the ivories on the cover of the Mondsee Gospels (Walters W.8).
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1050-1075 (Medieval)
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CC0
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en
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Ivory & Bone
plaques
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3
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3
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dimensions
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cm
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9.5
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6.5
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1
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3 3/4 x 2 9/16 x 3/8 in. (9.5 x 6.5 x 1 cm)
Source extras
cul
German
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Romanesque
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ivory
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6211
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215
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Page inventory
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1
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photo
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a86fe5590df881e5
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no
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2
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photo
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0832a9075ea4ea81
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no
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no
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3
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photo
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no
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no