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Source Description
The hat badge depicts St. Martin and the beggar, represented according to the usual iconographic type: the youthful saint, riding a horse, turns in his saddle towards the beggar and cuts his cloak in two to share it with him. Very often the beggar was represented as a cripple in rags with a wooden leg. Here he is naked, except for a loin-cloth. The border is studded with "jewels" in raised enamels over foil spangles, with gilt scrolls between, and an outer line of drops of white enamel. Inscribed in faded gilding in the blue ground between the legs of the horse: SM (Sanctus Martinus).
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Document identity
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16980
label
St. Martin and the Beggar
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object
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Source metadata
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16980
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object
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title
St. Martin and the Beggar
description
The hat badge depicts St. Martin and the beggar, represented according to the usual iconographic type: the youthful saint, riding a horse, turns in his saddle towards the beggar and cuts his cloak in two to share it with him. Very often the beggar was represented as a cripple in rags with a wooden leg. Here he is naked, except for a loin-cloth. The border is studded with "jewels" in raised enamels over foil spangles, with gilt scrolls between, and an outer line of drops of white enamel. Inscribed in faded gilding in the blue ground between the legs of the horse: SM (Sanctus Martinus).
provenance
Sale, Galleria Sangiorgi, Rome, April 21, 1902, lot 340; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1st half 16th century (Renaissance)
citationUrl
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CC0
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en
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Enamels
hat badges
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2
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2
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Diam: 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Transcription] SM; [Transliteration] S(aint) M(artin)
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painted enamel on copper
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7473
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REN
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none
Page inventory
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1
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photo
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6a12c251807847d9
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2
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photo
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327261cc5a9ca2d7
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