MAKE A MEME
View Large Image
| View Original: | Italian_-_Tabernacle_Door_with_Pietà _-_Walters_54346.jpg (1130x1800) | |||
| Download: | Original | Medium | Small | Thumb |
| Courtesy of: | commons.wikimedia.org | More Like This | ||
| Keywords: Italian - Tabernacle Door with Pietà - Walters 54346.jpg The Host Communion wafer consecrated by the priest was preserved inside the tabernacle During the Mass Christ's body is believed to become miraculously present in the Host transubstantiation The Mass is a symbolic reenactment of his sacrifice which explains the image of the Pietà the Virgin Mary holding the dead Christ-an image combining the ultimate in pity and piety on the tabernacle This relief is one of many copies of an image that was believed to be miraculous preserved in a church in the city of Chioggia south of Venice ca 1580 1600 gilded bronze cm 23 3 16 7 accession number 54 346 32209 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters place of origin Germany Walters Art Museum license Baroque art in the Walters Art Museum Italian art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
