MAKE A MEME
View Large Image
| View Original: | French_-_Reliquary_Shrine_of_St_Martial_-_Walters_44119_-_Side_A.jpg (1799x1525) | |||
| Download: | Original | Medium | Small | Thumb |
| Courtesy of: | commons.wikimedia.org | More Like This | ||
| Keywords: French - Reliquary Shrine of St Martial - Walters 44119 - Side A.jpg the scene depicted on the roof of this chasse is ambiguous lacking identifying inscriptions or attributes The figure whose arm Christ grasps has been identified with several saints including Marial of Limoges a popular regional saint who was believed to have raised people from the dead While the image might celebrate that event it could also commemorate Christ's Harrowing of Hell when Christ following his Resurrection rescued the virtuous souls imprisoned there who had died before the Incarnation It is possible that the scene's ambiguity is unintentional but a certain degree of ambiguity might have enabled the object to serve in different devotional contexts ca 1200 1210 Medieval champlevé enamel on copper with gilding glass H 9 x W at top finials 9 1/16 x D 3 5/8 in 22 9 x 23 02 x 9 21 cm accession number 44 119 14654 Ottile Goldschmidt-Przibram Brussels by purchase Sale Frederik Muller Cie Amsterdam June 19 1924 no 132 Brimo de Laroussilhe Paris date of acquisition unknown by purchase Henri Daguerre Paris date of acquisition unknown by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1928 A Medieval Treasury from Southern Collections Ackland Art Center University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill 1961 Reliquaries and Ritual Medieval Objects of Devotion The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984-1985 Vive la France French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1999-2000 Treasures of Heaven The Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland; The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; The British Museum London 2010-2011 place of origin Limoges France Walters Art Museum license Medieval metalwork in the Walters Art Museum Champlevé of Europe Limoges champlevé Medieval reliquaries Art of France in the Walters Art Museum Vive la France French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet | ||||
