MAKE A MEME
View Large Image
| View Original: | Naddo Ceccarelli - Reliquary Tabernacle with the Virgin and Child - Walters 371159.jpg (1224x1800) | |||
| Download: | Original | Medium | Small | Thumb |
| Courtesy of: | commons.wikimedia.org | More Like This | ||
| Keywords: Naddo Ceccarelli - Reliquary Tabernacle with the Virgin and Child - Walters 371159.jpg 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 ca 1350 Medieval tempera and gold leaf on wood panel with glass paper and relics cm 62 07 43 18 9 37 ; Painted surface cm 31 91 11 75 accession number 37 1159 35007 Arnold Seligmann Rey and Co New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1920 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 place of origin Siena Italy Walters Art Museum license 3D Medieval art in the Walters Art Museum Naddo Ceccarelli Paintings in the Walters Art Museum Madonna and Child | ||||
