Statuette of the Evangelist of John from a Lectern

ca. 1475 (Late Medieval)

42 cm 59 cm 29 cm

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In 1852, an art historian visited the cathedral at Messina, Sicily and saw a "curious lectern worked in brass, and now used for the reading of the Gospels...The upper portion is made to revolve, so that a copy of each evangelist's writing being laid upon his proper emblem, the...

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In the Cathedral of Messina, Italy, destroyed by earthquake in 1908; Raoul Heilbronner, Paris; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1910, by purchase, Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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Flemish
माध्यम
brass

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