Dish with Constantine the Great

1540-1560 (Renaissance)

40 cm 8.4 cm

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This dish shows Constantine (272-337 CE), the first Christian Emperor of Rome, on horseback carrying a banner. He clasps his hands together in an attitude of prayer, and lifts his face to a series of waved rays, representing heavenly guidance, emanating from the top of the cen...

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14434
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Normand Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown] (?); Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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