Locket with Scenes of the Crucifixion and the Virgin with the Christ Child

ca. 1575 (Renaissance)

5.2 cm 6 cm

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To the traditional image of the Crucifixion has been added a Latin inscription from Isaiah "By whose wounds we are healed." The passage was interpreted as referring to Christ's death on the cross as the way to salvation. On the back is an image of Mary with the Christ Child,...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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