File:Naddo Ceccarelli - Reliquary Tabernacle with the Virgin and Child - Google Art Project.jpg
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artist QS:P170,Q1997386 |
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English: Naddo Ceccarelli, a talented follower of Simone Martini (ca. 1284-1344), was one of a handful of painters to create reliquaries that emulated the work produced by goldsmiths. The format that Ceccarelli adopted in this painting is filled with allusions to works traditionally executed in other media, particularly those that combined architecture and sculpture. The object's thirty-four clear glass windows, enamel-like colors, and gilded architecture give it the appearance of a sacred vessel fashioned from precious materials. The gabled enclosure around the central painting of Christ and the Virgin explicitly draws on forms usually associated with tabernacles or shrines that were erected over an altar to display relics or the consecrated Host. The frame, covered with gold leaf, suggests the shape of a chapel filled with heavenly light and contains saints' relics within glass-covered cavities. Each relic is accompanied by a note recording its origin and significance. Unlike most Italian panel paintings, this reliquary would have been freestanding on the altar. It is "finished" on the back with a painted marble design and is supported by its own base.
For more information on this piece, please see Zeri catalogue number 25, pp. 43-44. |
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Date |
circa 1350 date QS:P571,+1350-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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Medium | tempera and gold leaf on wood panel with glass, paper, and relics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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height: 62 cm (24.4 in); width: 43.1 cm (17 in); depth: 9.3 cm (3.6 in) dimensions QS:P2048,62.07U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,43.18U174728 dimensions QS:P5524,9.37U174728 ; Painted surface height: 31.9 cm (12.5 in); width: 11.7 cm (4.6 in)dimensions QS:P2048,31.91U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,11.75U174728 |
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Accession number |
37.1159, 35007 |
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Place of creation | Siena, Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Exhibition history | Reliquaries and Ritual: Medieval Objects of Devotion. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1984-1985. Treasures of Heaven. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; The British Museum, London. 2010-2011. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Credit line | Acquired by Henry Walters, 1920 |
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